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#1. Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.

African Spir

#2. Talk English to me, Tommy.
Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole.
But the meanings are different
in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1}

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

John Knox

#5. I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties 'avec le bourgeois' / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

Yusuf Islam

#6. Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

Denis Diderot

#8. In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

Joshua Rush

#9. Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Richard Francis Burton

#10. We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.

Robert L. Payton

#11. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.

Deborah L. Parker

#12. Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Neil Young

#13. One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.

Barry Lyga

#14. WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Andy Andrews

#15. I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

Alex Campbell