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Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier backs are against the wall.


Paul Auster

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RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
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