Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
