Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Life
  • Game
  • Man

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
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• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
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  • Outside

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Me

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Great
  • Success

• If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Relationship
  • Single
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• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Home
  • City

• As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Nature
  • Law