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Paul Valery Quotes

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

Topics

War People Profit Know Who Other

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'

Window Thought Hide Earth Everything

One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.

Great Appreciation People Fake You

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.

Jennifer Holliday

Love Future Picture Kind Big Picture

A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.

Age Writing Deep Wish Personal

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Moment Focus Doing Up Takes Span

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Strange Out Context Seem Must Taken

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

Vacation Holidays Lose Leaving Try

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Strong Physics Without Rice Idea

Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.

Life Positive Love Confidence Hope

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Power Media Need Corporations

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Marriage Home Parents Never Even

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

I Am People Want Always Whatever Am

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