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Francois Rabelais Quotes

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Francois Rabelais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: french
Birth: 1493 - April 9, 1553

Topics

World Know Half Other How Does

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.

Together Poetry Small Reading Honor

Food really is fuel - and hydration as well - but for athletic activity, you really got to take it seriously, or else it can negatively impact your performance.

Food Performance Impact You Take

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

John O. Brennan

Terrorism Lead Against Cannot Fact

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

Moment Enjoy Fasting Anything Order

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

Surprise Development Always Excited

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

Marriage Business Wife Man People

Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.

Roman Abramovich

Beauty Money Football City Small

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

People Know Intellectual Want Many

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

I Am Fighting Back Now Want Right

I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.

Opportunity Path Me Seeing Way Take

I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.

Story End Feel Long Down Test

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.

Murray Rothbard

God Knowledge Man Saying Impossible

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