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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

Understanding Beyond Minds Anything

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

McKayla Maroney

Women Words People Me Confused Know

When I was 19, I did an internship in Los Angeles and lived with a friend of mine in the Valley.

Friend Los Angeles Lived Valley Mine

I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.

Life Tough My Life Lifestyle Follow

I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.

Waiting People Me Door Seeing Way

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

Grow Trouble Run Grow Up Big Serve

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

Friend I Am Me Research Doctor Said

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.

Soul Death Speak Born Human Been

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Good You Reason Keep Republic Our

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Control Military Gateway Middle East

As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.

Chris Stapleton

Good Music People Long Buying

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

World Champion Violence House Three

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Arthur Peacocke

Good Selfish Humanity Values Social

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