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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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War People End Find Will Difficult

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.

You Say Write They Say Take Hear

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Good Art Myself Writing Aesthetic

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

Mother Great Parents Me Saying You

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

Government People Lost Big Just Too

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Family Father Brother Present Soccer

I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.

Positive Past Space People Saying

Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.

Day I Am Wish Hands Powerful Meet

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

Work Change Time Wife Government

In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.

Chrystia Freeland

Fear People Capitalism Become Market

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Work You Play Going Them Beg

The best teacher is an entertainer.

Teacher Best Entertainer

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington

Nature Science Mind Where Found Put

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