Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Topics

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President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

Meghan McCain

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Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Robert Kurson

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I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

Matt Damon

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My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

Amanda Lindhout

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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Simon Conway Morris

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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Ronald Kessler

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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Ruth Rendell

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We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Livy

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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

Bonnie Hunt

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I'm a very friendly, smiley person.

Aubrie Sellers

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Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

Paul Wolfowitz

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