Top 18 Michel Tournier Quotes

#1. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.

Jane Austen

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#2. In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

Paul Farmer

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#3. The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

Harry Belafonte

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#4. I should learn to be a bird on the outside and a tiger within.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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#5. Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

Michel Tournier

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#6. I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women
you know
long-suffering, dutiful
but all right in the end
a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.

Peter Greenaway

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#7. Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Swami Vivekananda

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#8. We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

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#9. People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

David Baldacci

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#10. If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

Marilyn Manson

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#11. I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

Joan Didion

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#12. Those thin places where truth seeps through, those are the places where Jesus walks
the places we find healing.

Jo Ann Fore

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#13. I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#14. The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

Michel Tournier

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#15. Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

Michel Tournier

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#16. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

L. Tom Perry

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#17. In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.

Pharrell Williams

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#18. As soon as I wake up, I check my phone, hoping there's a message from you.

Christina Ricci

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