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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Others Pleasure Own Take Faults Our

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Money Travel Lie Stand Trying Way

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Good College Goal Way Get Only

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Heart Mind Naive Well

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

Sinead O'Connor

Me Spirit Emotion Holy Spirit Notes

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Great Find Matter Human Sorrow Him

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

People You Find Too Much Try Begin

In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

Time School Parents Sister Year Him

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

American Tax First Income Tax System

I think life is really good.

Life Good Think I Think Really

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Work Character Day Momentum You

I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.

Aretha Franklin

Loved Enjoy Person Musically Working

If we're talking about big-tent thinking in the Republican Party, I think we're all going to unite under a consistent economic theory. That's where our unity is, and that's what unites us.

Unity Think Thinking Talking Party

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