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Boring people live boring lives.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
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People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
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He is richest who is content with the least.
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Moral writing is boring.
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Plumbing is usually boring.
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Godliness with contentment is rare.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
CHARLES DE LINT
There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT
Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT
We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE