Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
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Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
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When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
