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Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. Dominique de Villepin
Responsibility Demanding Must Follow Road Uncontrolled Between Passivity Escalation
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything! Emile Zola
Arrogant Everything Indeed Must Take Know Hand Imagine
Science without conscience is the death of the soul. Francois Rabelais
Death Soul Science Without Conscience
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reality Better Our Virtues Than Often Disguised Vices
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People Pride Envy Own Think Enough Mark Others Considerable Take Conceited Merit May Being Unfortunate Them Themselves Fortune
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom Good People Criticism Few Would Praise Few People Deceives Prefer Them
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Own Others Our Pleasure Faults Those Take Had Much Should Noticing
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Peace Vain Ourselves Seek Outward Within Sources
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Frederic Bastiat
God Property Natural Liberty His Person Natural Right Us Each Right Defend
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau
History Nation Gone Interval Degeneration Miraculously Only Directly Civilization Without America Which Barbarism Usual
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Georges Duhamel
Memory Value Our True Know Until Undergone Test True Value Moments
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Gerard De Nerval
Good Good And Evil Evil Single Nothing Universe Dissolve Everything Distinction Rightly Has-Been Lies Atom Between Powerless Terror Said Been Eternal Unimportant Save
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Gustave Flaubert
Work Art You Man Worth Enemies Spoken Calculate Importance His Number Harm
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Henri Matisse
Creative First Before Nothing Rose Difficult More He Because Were Truly Than Forget Roses Paint Painted Painter Ever
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. Henri Poincare
Science Intuition Through Prove Discover
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac
Love Women Men Nothing Crimes Our Virtues Everything Give Forgive Us Even Credit
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac
Happiness Happy Say Alike Bad Exaggerate Misfortune Never Off
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Honore de Balzac
Great Religion People Will Fall Rich Attack After Swept Away Royalty
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
Technology Become Defining Total Civilization Longer New Force Imposed Efficiency Option Modern Human Human Activity Order Modern Technology Which Social Social Order Activity Necessity Phenomenon
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Jacques Ellul
Active Propaganda Mythical Longer Arouse Opinion Goal Modern Transform Belief
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Work Hope Future Faith Logical Indeed Would Would-Be More Bleak Were Than Human Human Beings Beings
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Man Intelligence Stupidity Own Tries He Sooner Involve Does Discover His Than
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious Rascals Believers
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thankful Gratitude Duty Ought None Expect Which Paid Right
We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming. Jean-Michel Jarre
Future Vision Car Fly Will Lost Before Nothing Garbage Universe Our Say Ways Has-Been Kind Select Exciting Idea Naive Global Global Warming How Reduced Go Been End Survive Same To Survive Warming Now
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. Jean Cocteau
Sad Great News You Tell Piece Dead Am
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