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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
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those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
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Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.
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I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.
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In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.
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You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.
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In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
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To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.