Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
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• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
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• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
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• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
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• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

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• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

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• I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

  

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• Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

  

  Henry St. John
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• I do all core-based alignment training and strength training. If I don't die at the end of 90 minutes, then it hasn't been a good workout.

  

  Lauren Cohan
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• I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

  

  Saint Augustine
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  • Fall
  • Suspense

• You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
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• What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Communication