Urbain Dubois famous quotes

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The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
-- Urbain Dubois

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.
An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.
My history's not very good, but did David win?
QVC has been very good to me.

Urbain Dubois famous quotes

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