Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.
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The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
