Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
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• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
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• It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
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• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

  

  David Chipperfield
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• It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
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• Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi

• Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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