"Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves."

-- Jean Baptiste Massillon

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“I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.”
“I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.”
“I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.”
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”
“My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.”
“A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.”

Source : "And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Andrew Frothingham, Ashton Applewhite, and Tripp Evans, p.469, 1992.
“I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.”

Source : Little Green Footballs weblog, November 03, 2006.
“We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.”

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