Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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My life is my message.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
