Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. 'For,' they said, 'there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man.' And, so far as they knew, they were quite right.
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Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna goWhen the whole thing's done.But no one knows for certainAnd so it's all the same to me.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
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People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.
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A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men that can say they have seen that spectacle.
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
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For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.
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My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
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You strip from me the laurel and the rose!Take all! Despite you there is yet one thingI hold against you all, and when, tonight,I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,I bear away despite you … My panache.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
