I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?


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Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
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Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN
How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Les gens ne connaissent pas leur bonheur... mais celui des autres ne leur échappe pas
PIERRE DANINOS
Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
PIERRE BONNARD
One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
PIERRE BONNARD
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
PIERRE BOURDIEU
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
PIERRE TRUDEAU
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to corre...
PIERRE BOULEZ
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU
It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD
There's always some further action to take.
PIERRE BOULLE
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace wit...
PIERRE LAVAL
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Creativity is to think more efficiently
PIERRE REVERDY
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction
PIERRE PACHET
If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to d...
PIERRE DULAINE
The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE