Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
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The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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Influenced by Wesley and the revival movement, Englishman William Wilberforce led the successful movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
