Andre Siegfried famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
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Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
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It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.
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There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.
-- Andre Siegfried
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it's hard. You go through four relationships where you're not happy and you've been cheated on, or whatever - and I'm not saying this has happened to me - but you have to still believe.
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As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
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