Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
Najib Razak
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
Ian Frazier
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
Randy Falco
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
Edith Widder
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
Kate Chopin
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
Abraham Verghese
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
William Dean Howells
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
Carlene Carter
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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
Virginia Woolf
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I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau