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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

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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Doing Perfect Capable Without Would

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Good Bridges Museums Paid Admission

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Business Great Rich Portrait You Go

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

Mother Pain Sleep Brain Think You

The underdog status suits me just fine.

Michael Bisping

Me Underdog Suits Status Fine Just

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

Michael Connelly

Beach Woods Story Body News Journal

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

Perspective Animal Brain Fly Problem

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Steve Jurvetson

Team Entrepreneur Nothing Up Seem

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Mother Invention Caught Getting

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Success Failure Live Yourself World

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Great Baseball Happy Opportunities

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

Christy Turlington

Time Woman Loved Capture Over Image

The one thing Marvel does is think outside the box, going all the way back to Ang Lee directing the first 'Hulk.' They like to go outside the genre.

Think Back Go Way First Outside

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