Madame de Stael Quotes

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame de Stael

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 22, 1766 - July 14, 1817

Topics

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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

Jimmy Smits

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I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Jim Parsons

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I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

Jeremy Lin

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Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Jeff Bingaman

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When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.

Michael Greger

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People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

Michael Hintze

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I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

Mike Quade

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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael LeBoeuf

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I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.

Lisa Ling

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I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

Jon Corzine

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Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

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