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[Firoozeh's dad speaking] He continued, "It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people...
FIROOZEH DUMAS My dad says the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.
FIROOZEH DUMAS Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in ...
FIROOZEH DUMAS Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, j...
FIROOZEH DUMAS It seemed to me that life in America was one long series of festivities, all of them celebrated with...
FIROOZEH DUMAS I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can’t-learn-to-s...
FIROOZEH DUMAS Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS Swimsuit competitions go against everything that is right and decent in this world. We're told that ...
FIROOZEH DUMAS It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you g...
FIROOZEH DUMAS ...The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a me...
FIROOZEH DUMAS

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, i...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All for one and one for all.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

What's history?
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nothing succeeds like success.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to ano...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I am a Count, Not a Saint.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that...
ANN DUMAS There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French...
ANN DUMAS On the one hand, we're trying to produce a very well-rounded, balanced and varied selection of Degas...
ANN DUMAS With each one (exhibition) you do, you build on a sort of critical mass of a reputation, which count...
ANN DUMAS The problem is that a lot of people want to study art history; far more people study it than there a...
ANN DUMAS

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawi...
MARLENE DUMAS

Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

The kingdoms of kings are confined, either by mountains or rivers, or by a change in customs or by a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then onc...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was i...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I ret...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, th...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword...
D'Artagnan: The mighty ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Be kind, aim for my heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. No...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet;...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy th...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
MARLENE DUMAS

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly hear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
ALEXANDER DUMAS

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In what we used to call the Club Med economies, there's Anglo-Saxon borrow-and-spend, and, on the su...
CHARLES DUMAS There we are introducing the children to the routine of the school.
JOELLE DUMAS Right after Katrina it looked like a no-brainer. Uncertainties about where things were going as a re...
CHARLES DUMAS

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" <...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDER DUMAS I was opposed to the deal but all my cabinet colleagues were in favour,
ROLAND DUMAS Italian labour costs are beyond the point of being compatible with EMU membership without painful re...
CHARLES DUMAS The children's talents are nurtured so they can feel comfortable with each other and in what they br...
JOELLE DUMAS Obviously, 9/11 was one of the most profound events in our life as a country. Foreigners weren't rea...
CHARLES DUMAS

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, an...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men could...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feeling...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Nothing was being done here to commemorate 9/11. I believe drama has the potential for healing, and ...
CHARLES DUMAS

Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence...
ALEXANDER DUMAS

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, human...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS For the first time since the 1980s, domestic demand seems likely to sustain growth.
CHARLES DUMAS Inflation is down to 1.4% excluding energy, so there's absolutely no inflation pressure.
CHARLES DUMAS 911 -- A Day in the Life of a People,
CHARLES DUMAS I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away...
MARLENE DUMAS

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understand...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Voyager, c'est vivre dans toute la plénitude du mot; c'est oublier le passé et l'avenir pour le pr...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our ca...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public ...
ED DUMAS They were there because they have very good information and they have very good statistics and they ...
ED DUMAS The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud t...
ED DUMAS If the county has some form of income tax like the city, then it would be a much more likely option....
ED DUMAS We should be in good shape if everything holds up as predicted.
ED DUMAS This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reaso...
ED DUMAS We've said it before and we'll say it again: This is not a trial about us.
EDWARD DUMAS We don't expect any political fallout. It's not about us.
EDWARD DUMAS We weren't comfortable about the Board of Elections hiring someone that a county department had fire...
EDWARD DUMAS

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Qu'Est-ce que la mort? Un degré de plus dans le calme et deux peut-être dans le silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
MARLENE DUMAS

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pist...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is really nothing else like it, and to see these 110 objects, you had to start before the sun ...
RALPH DUMAS

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The revenue stream to pay for the parking would be a pay parking system, not just in the deck but fo...
GARY DUMAS You can?t drive the market on all three. There?s just not enough money.
GARY DUMAS I'm new to this project, but they have done a great job with every tower. Regardless of the building...
GARY DUMAS

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’

'So...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me sup...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own hori...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fair...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great diffic...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"

"Possibly nothing at all; the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

На този свят няма нито щастие, нито нещастие, има само с...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We encourage the children's expression through playful creativity.
JOELLE DUMAS ¿ la claire fontaine. You see the world as children are forming.
JOELLE DUMAS

Luego, dirigiendo una postrer mirada sobre aquel apuesto joven, que tendría lo más veinticinco añ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It?s a challenge to yourself, especially as I get older; your eyes get worse.
RALPH DUMAS Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse, There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE

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