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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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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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
