Bernard de Mandeville Quotes

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard de Mandeville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 15, 1670 - January 21, 1733

Topics

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All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?

John M. Grunsfeld

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I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Matthew Macfadyen

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I've been fighting for a long time.

Robbie Lawler

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As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.

Ronnie Musgrove

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I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Ruby Wax

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There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

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Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Moby

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When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

Christina Hendricks

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I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.

Brett Gelman

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My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

Bob Menendez

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I find it much more compelling to make a four-biter that leaves you wishing that you had a fifth. I think 'the tyranny of the entree' is the right way to put it. I don't want to build this giant plate of food.

Wylie Dufresne

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My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

Peter Hain

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