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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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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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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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been these tiny steps leading to this.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone -
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
