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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: french
Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

Health Quality Society May Measured

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Women Woman Escape Needs Few

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

Art Light Men Darkness Artist Duty

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

Vision Day Words Silence Brain Seed

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Depression Finance World Stock Market

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Happy Country Human Noble Greatest

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Love Coffee Detail Someone Drawing

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

Age Trying I Can Nation Just Front

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

Miguel Indurain

Feel Prove More Anything Had

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Man Night Small Wonders Full Large

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

Marriage Home Simple People World

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Christopher Dodd

Care Going Give Needs Wants Public

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Brian P. Cleary

Hate School Talent Reading Little

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