Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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My music lives because of real players.
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Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
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The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
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Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.
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Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.
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I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
