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  • Georges Pompidou There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
    Georges Pompidou
    French politician, prime minister and president (1911 - 1974)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Peter de Vries There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Ben Zobrist There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is ready to go but your mind isn't. You try to get the two in sync as much as possible.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Gordon Graham There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
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  • Ayn Rand There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ayn Rand There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Baldwin Spencer There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Meister Eckhart There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Betty Wright There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Billy Eichner There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Viola There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Francis Bacon There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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