Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Quotes to Explore
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.
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We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
