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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: 1645 - 1696

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Man Him Favor Discover Before Which

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

Money Help You Party Place Election

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

Beauty Printing Own Different Them

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Nature Change Experience Grow Laws

There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

Power Together Reading Out About

There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big!

Michael Imperioli

School New York People New Up Big

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Michael Bloomberg

New York People Challenges Legal Run

There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.

Michael Connelly

Me Someone You Intention Three Over

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

Dream Old Pitching Years Stadium

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Better Wish Play Now Way I Wish

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

Son Time Me Being Been Shaped

I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.

Saying Friends More Everyone Gang

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

Humor Sense Of Humor Sense Develop

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