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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin
Life Important Fighting Winning Part Taking Most Most Important Thing Well Important Thing Essential The Most Important Games Conquering Thing Olympic Olympic Games
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes
Light Pessimist Out Run Must See None Always Optimist Blow May Where Why
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo
Bird Bending Beneath Frail Wings Perched Feels Knowing She Still Sings Branch Same Away Her
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle
Politics Matter Politicians Too Come Conclusion Left Serious
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Denis Diderot
Nature Knowledge Result Reflection Three Facts Observation Combination Principal Experimentation Them Acquiring Means
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
Truth Lie Bitter Find Only Sip Any Swallow Flatters Little Us
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand
Life Book Fire Single Our We Cannot Out Throw Cannot Page Whole Tear
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre
Responsible Fact Know Want
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. Marcel Pagnol
Future Be Happy Happy People Better Will Past Resolved Worse Find See Always Than Hard Less Reason Present
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental. Marion Cotillard
Depression People Exactly Exactly What Know Judgmental
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Marquis de Lafayette
People Will Fall Liberties Destroyed Clergy American Hands American People Ever
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napoleon Bonaparte
Man Rights Fight Will His Than Interests Harder
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo
Soul Interior Sky Than Grander Sea Spectacle
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Voltaire
Roman Empire Neither Empire Nor Roman Holy
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. Voltaire
Heart Mouth Poorly Murmur
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire
Friendship Soul Marriage Liable Divorce
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Voltaire
Work Beauty Must See Feel Know Affected Sufficient
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Albert Camus
Love You Random Fall Despair Alibi Only Feel Provide Going Anyway Necessary
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus
Thought Hopeless Fall Own Back Top Punishment Futile Dreadful Would Some More Had Weight Rock Condemned Labor Mountain Than Gods Stone Rolling Whence Reason
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus
Beautiful Truth Light Every On The Contrary Object Like Blinds Falsehood Contrary Enhances Twilight
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville
Character World Money Will Value Single National Everything Only Sees Sought Answer How How Much How Much Money National Character Question American Much Deeper Bring
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville
Freedom Mind Independence Country No Country Know Real Real Freedom Discussion America Which Little
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France
Equality Law Rich Steal Majestic Well Beg Bread Poor Bridges Streets Sleep
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? Charles de Gaulle
Government Cheese Nation Different Kinds Hundred Kinds How Govern Different Anyone Two
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. Christian Louboutin
You Walk Language Shoes Design Way Only Part Dictated Shoe Going Quite Move Body Body Language Your Your Body
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great People Brainy Men Say Know Talkers While Little Much Who
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