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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.


Bernard Devoto

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BERNARD VOTO The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriage...
BERNARD VOTO The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse stead...
BERNARD VOTO Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom
BERNARD VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
BERNARD VOTO Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted...
BERNARD THIBAULT We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.
BERNARD THIBAULT The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented...
BERNARD THIBAULT Tuesday can be a turning point.
BERNARD THIBAULT That would be a decision with serious consequences.
BERNARD THIBAULT When all unions join together to bring a consistent message, there is a response and support from th...
BERNARD THIBAULT We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real eme...
BERNARD THIBAULT We are more than three million on the street. It is historic. It is unthinkable for the prime minist...
BERNARD THIBAULT We will not allow it to be written in French law that workers can be laid off at a click of the fing...
BERNARD THIBAULT The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are th...
BERNARD SIEGEL He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he ...
BERNARD SIEGEL I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,
BERNARD SIEGEL I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of t...
BERNARD SIEGEL You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
BERNARD SHAW What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fi...
BERNARD SHAW If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
BERNARD SHAW We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing vari...
BERNARD SANDERS I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environment...
BERNARD SANDERS What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness tha...
BERNARD SANDERS