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Álvaro de Campos

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- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it is important for them to say what they feel and I think it is important for us to say wha...
EVE TIDWELL Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it ...
T.S. ELIOT Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
EDMUND WALLER Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can...
EMMETT KELLY David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
J.M. BARRIE It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
MICHELLE PHAN They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
STEVEN WRIGHT In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no pe...
MURIEL RUKEYSER I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what th...
CAROL GILLIGAN In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the ...
JURGEN KLOPP Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.
TERRY WOGAN I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
JASON DAY 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a...
BRIGITTE BOISSELIER I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.
MELISSA SAGEMILLER People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh...
NOEL COWARD Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives...
THOMAS FRANK I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.
COLIN TREVORROW Having positivity in your life and a kind, forgiving heart allows you the strength to not hold anyth...
ANGIE TUCK Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at h...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of...
M.C. FRANK They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
CLINT EASTWOOD The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
DAN PINK They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
BRIAN CLOUGH Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
PLATO When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea!
CHARO They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!
RULA GHANI But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t...
DAVID BLAINE They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian ...
CHRISTIAN LACROIX In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
REGGIE WATTS Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b...
DAN O'DONNELL I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it a...
CARRIE FISHER When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
MARILYN FRENCH Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
JAMES BROUGHTON To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTES To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTES They don't feel any obligation to the world, but that's not what the Bible and Jesus say.
BRIAN GARRY People don't care what you do or say UNTIL they feel that YOU care about them.
LORRIN L. LEE In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my bod...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile....
RICHARD C. ARMITAGE In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
ERNIE HARWELL They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
ALAN SHEPARD They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
AL LOPEZ In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
CASEY AFFLECK They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D. H. LAWRENCE They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.&...
RYAN GOSLING Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it i...
JAY GRIFFITHS I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
CHERYL STRAYED People always make war when they say they love peace.
D. H. LAWRENCE I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.
JESSICA KHOURY He is half of my soul, as the poets say.
MADELINE MILLER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We buil...
ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make i...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Girls, there are poets who learn from you
to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It really sucks when someone I know doesn't say what they mean and what they feel, and then proceeds...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to...
INDRA DEVI Never tell people you are superior, because they will always try to make you feel inferior.
OUSSAMA HEDHLI No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
RONALD REAGAN They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
THOMAS A. EDISON If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
HENRY ROLLINS One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
MIGUEL I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they sa...
JAMES HANSEN Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVY As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGER They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
CESAR ROMERO We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think it's terrible, they didn't hear what the people had to say and they don't care what they rea...
ELAINE PHILLIPS The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of...
PETER HOLLINGWORTH And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say things to hurt yo...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydresse...
ROBERT BURTON Many people say they feel let down about the reasons why Britain went to war. They feel they weren't...
CHRIS RENNARD What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Some have been to Iraq and others have heard what goes on there. Mainly, what they discuss is being ...
LEE ZASLOFSKY Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will ...
TEGAN QUIN Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories...
AARON STERN People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they ...
DAVID MAMET Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forg...
MARIO BALOTELLI When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&...
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BOBBY CAMPOS We feel Joey's got the upper edge just because of his experience at the varsity level. Cooper's a gr...
BOBBY CAMPOS We thought we had a shoo-in for the best rusher in the state. (Losing Aragon) just throws a lump in ...
BOBBY CAMPOS The coaches knew what the plays were going to be, but the players didn't. We scripted out plays, and...
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BOBBY CAMPOS We really haven't come to a decision yet. They both can do it.
BOBBY CAMPOS We were psyched about the season.
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BOBBY CAMPOS Behind them, we have some seniors that we feel can step in ? Steven Fischer and Jeff McCrea ? along ...
BOBBY CAMPOS Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic.
MARITZA CAMPOS THIS is why democracy doesn't work! Too much talking leads to not enough violence!
MARITZA CAMPOS Everything can be solved through civilized dialogue and implied agony.
MARITZA CAMPOS I just heard a commotion and came outside to see what was going on.
KEVIN CAMPOS Serendipity favors the believing.
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CRISTINA CAMPOS There is nothing to indicate a ride malfunction.
LISSETTE CAMPOS There is no indication of a ride malfunction.
LISSETTE CAMPOS I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.
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DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
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DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
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YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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