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Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
Josephine Baker
Democracy
You
Respect
Eyes
Yourself
World
Treat
Preaching
Believe
Brothers
Colored
How
Expect
American
Your
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.
Josephine Baker
Sad
Me
Hate
People
Remember
Girl
Feeling
East
Riot
Directed
Horror
Given
Colored
Because
Always
Louis
St. Louis
Against
Little
Race
Little Girl
Here
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard
Alone
World
Entire
Sees
Which
Places
Moments
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard
You
Try
Lonely
Afraid
Being
Right
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Jules Renard
Heart
Socialism
Down
Must
Come
Reach
Brain
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Jules Verne
Man
Will
Would
Perish
Inevitably
Where
Energetic
Succeed
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Jules Verne
Out
Taken
Puts
Branches
Root
Man is never perfect nor contented.
Jules Verne
Man
Perfect
Never
Contented
Nor
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne
Future
Great
Water
Circle
Three
Half
Distance
Earth
Months
Thousand
Ten
Having
Sharp
Leagues
Piercing
Greater
Were
Accomplished
Spur
Than
Going
Where
After
Reserved
Now
Nearly
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
Man
Heart
Will
Thought
Long
Despair
Gifted
Allow
Beats
Himself
Being
Flesh
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
Best
Waiting
Our
Though
Best Friend
Friend
Often
Us
Who
Keeps
Sleep
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
Jules Verne
Art
Great
Science
Humanity
Complicated
Simple
Everything
Telegraph
Press
Steam
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Discoveries
Than
Electric
Engine
Less
Compass
Gravitation
The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.
Jules Verne
Good
Degree
Latitude
Good Reason
Pole
Within
Been
Discovered
Very
North
North Pole
Situated
Regions
Reason
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
Julie Delpy
Women
Losing
Single
Too
Compromises
Throw
Identity
Because
Making
Afraid
Romance
Being
Romantic
Themselves
Then
Many
Start
We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family.
Laurent Baheux
Family
Nature
Big
Living
Other
Harmony
Our
Respectful
Ourselves
Recover
Environment
True
Like
True Nature
Big Family
Being
Planet
Species
Need
That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal.
Leila Slimani
Animal
Dark
Dark Side
Too
Side
Everything
Unable
Ourselves
Fact
Drives
Part
Most
Another
Doing
Just
Stop
Where
Spaces
Which
Interesting
Us
Reason
Species
Luminous
Things
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
Leon Jouhaux
Service
Military
Back
Completion
Factory
Trade
Trade Union
Union
Military Service
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life
Work
Worth
Written
Clearly
Counts
Much
Transparency
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Louis Aragon
Love
Love Is
Solitude
People
Made
Different Kinds
Kinds
Crowd
Oblivious
Different
Two
Two People
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon
People
Will
Thought
Style
Beneath
Books
Rules
Severity
Lice
Logic
Seek
Head
Demand
Footsteps
Know
Knowledgeable
Judged
Commas
Grammar
Who
Utmost
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
Yourself
Tainted
Skepticism
Barren
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV
King
Lose
Temper
Were
Should
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
Louis de Broglie
Myth
Single
Wave
Wavelength
Must
Small
Longer
Conceived
Predicted
Measured
Electricity
Electron
Associated
Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.
Louise Bourgeois
You
Anxiety
Fear
Space
Too
Otherwise
Define
Something
Claustrophobic
Like
Know
Because
Least
Limits
Spaces
Which
Then
Your
Specific
Vague
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
Louise Bourgeois
You
Will
Own
Tell
Story
Interesting
Your
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
Luc Ferrari
Me
Lawyer
Seemed
Guy
Laws
Like
Wrote
Who
Company
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