Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

  

  Doug Henning
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• Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.

  

  William Allingham
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• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
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• I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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