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truth errors littles
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Alexis Carrel
teamwork helping-others people
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
tyrants age democracy
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. Alexis de Tocqueville
taste prosperity democratic
The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
taken heart views
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. “Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.
thinking goal march
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
tolerance opinion indifference
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
truth believe people
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.
thinking people mind
The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
two limits path
There are at the present time two great nations in the world allude to the Russians and the Americans All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.
thinking light hands
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.
true-friend sacrifice rights
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.
together democracy slavery
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways... socialism is a new form of slavery.
ties language mankind
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
tired watches world
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.
thinking trying filmmaker
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see. Alexandre Aja
thinking intellectual east
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think. Alexandra Wentworth
today tomorrow environment
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows. Alexandra Stoddard
thinking actresses normal
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal. Alexandra Roach
thinking next needs
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. Alexandra Ripley
trying grind comic
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. Alexei Sayle
thinking people stuff
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
thinking live-your-life should
I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.
thinking people
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
two world remember
Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. Alexandre Dumas
truth fire water
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
two yellow people
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
thread slender fortune
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
taken reality men
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
thinking laughing long
Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
two sight forever
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
two evil silence
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
thinking way
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way. Alexandra Cassavetes