Marcel Proust Quotes
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
