Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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Actors don't have real value.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.
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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
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I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
