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Francois Fenelon Quotes

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mind Virtue Moderation Extremes

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Good Happiness Time Happy Be Happy

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Work Yourself Think Doing You Back

We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.

Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

Stephanie Coontz

Home Children Parents People Society

I hate the outdoors. I'm a big snob.

Hate Outdoors Big Snob

I do believe that the Chinese are becoming international leaders in showing the way forward for concert music.

Music Believe Forward Way Concert

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Marriage God Unique Place Chosen

There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

Work Me Dream Situation Director

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Love Fishing World You Fall Back

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

Chelsea Clinton

Day Every Day Feeling Point Some

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Clifton Fadiman

Experience Man Eye You Looks Hiding

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Family Love Father Small Why Smell

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