Francois Fenelon Quotes

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Francois Fenelon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: August 6, 1651 - January 7, 1715

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I love a lot of the '70s singers: Pam Grier from the 'Foxy Brown' movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They've always been able to embrace their hair, and they've never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.

Jillian Hervey

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I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

Joel Grey

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You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.

Andre Ward

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My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

Mauro Ranallo

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The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

Amanda Seales

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I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s and '30s.

Stephen Hough

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I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

Stewart Lee

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Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

Tom Perez

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

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I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

Mohamed Salah

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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Jose Marti

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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Jose Padilha

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