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CATHERINE MILLOT Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace...
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ALBERTO CASTOLDI On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Su...
DANIEL PENNAC The same wood used for the coffin and the roof structure. (Au cercueil sert le même bois, - Et à l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Le voyageur sait qu'il n'y a plus de bouts du monde. Ils sont tous atteints, balisés, photographié...
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JEANNE GUYET En un sens, le titre d’ancien, utilisé à son adresse par l’homme des bois, le ravit. C’est l...
CYRILLE MENDES « Quoi que tu rêves d'entreprendre, commence-le. L'audace a du génie, du pouvoir, de la magie. ...
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LAURENT BETTONI Notre devoir n’est pas de nous débarrasser du fou, mais de débarrasser le fou de sa folie.
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KARL MARX Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du d�...
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MURIEL BARBERY Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la ...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay...
PAUL FéVAL PèRE La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait...
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SYLVIE LE BIHAN Mais Frida ne se représente pas comme un personnage sacré, car elle constate son état avec une cr...
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PIERRE JANET Parler derrière le dos des autres est le ventilateur du couer.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Des jugements, des appréciations de la vie, pour ou contre, ne peuvent, en dernière instance, jama...
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NADIA HASHIMI Caresses are a wind blowing from within. (Les caresses sont un vent - Qui souffle du dedans.)
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VICTOR HUGO Oui, partout, oui, toujours, oui, pour combattre les violences et les impostures, oui pour réhabili...
VICTOR HUGO Oui, partout, oui, toujours, oui, pour combattre les violences et les impostures, oui pour réhabili...
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FRITHJOF SCHUON Fermes tes yeux et tu verras , la realité de ce monde où le matérialisme domine tout , de tes plu...
WILLIAM RIHANI Wanderess, Wanderess,
emporte-nous dans un récit
de séduction et de ruse.
Héroï...
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MIRELLE HDB L'avenir n'est jamais que du présent à mettre en ordre. Tu n'as pas à le prévoir, mais à le per...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Le montant des dépenses mondiales de publicité et de sponsoring approchait 600 milliards de dollar...
JEAN GADREY Nous savons qu'il advient dans nos vies des choses qui nous semblent totalement inconnues et totalem...
C.G. JUNG non seulement le passé n’est jamais mort, mais il n’est même pas passé
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JAY ASHER The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co...
ERRI DE LUCA Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Eh bien, toi, qu'est-ce qui t'arrive ? Il fait si beau temps. [...] Quelle mouche t'a piqué ?
...
THOMAS MANN On suffoquait, les chevelures s'alourdissaient sur les têtes en sueur. Depuis trois heures qu'on é...
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CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Un mot exprime à lui seul ce double caractère, solitaire et inconnaissable, de toute chose au mond...
CLéMENT ROSSET The wolf rolls out red carpet, remnants of Red Riding Hood. (Le loup déroule le tapis rouge, - Ce q...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ...
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ALAIN Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.
ALAIN DUCASSE The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so per...
ALAIN BADIOU They never saw their family again.
ALAIN WEBER To me as a man, and as an educator, it is so incredibly important that we do not forget.
ALAIN WEBER I could see she had a great deal of pride in what I am doing, but she still questions it.
ALAIN WEBER You early on become very conscious of certain things. Others were talking about religion. We were no...
ALAIN WEBER There's no game tonight if Flats is not sharp. You have to be honest with the performance he put tog...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sha...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT We're not quite sure what they're going to do, but they're going to let us know (today). Somebody is...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT Those teams are playing really well right now. We're in a tough division, a good division. You've go...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT We might be a little off as far as our timing goes. But our guys are going to be fine. This was a we...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT We always got together on my mom's side and I was about six-years-old. It was the last year my grand...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT I knew this is really challenging for him not playing, but if we ever needed him there was never a d...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT That's bush-league. I haven't seen that in pro hockey.
ALAIN VIGNEAULT It's great they're getting this opportunity. A lot of times you hear guys saying 'you never gave me ...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT Out of the 21 players that were dressed (last) night, theoretically, seven of them are going to leav...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT It's hard to say at the moment, since this is just the beginning. But if SANS' report is accurate, I...
ALAIN SERGILE Once an area of weakness is pinpointed, hackers tend to dig at it. As more eyes turn to that area, m...
ALAIN SERGILE I think we will see an exploit materialize either in a test harness or as an actual public exploit w...
ALAIN SERGILE When Microsoft said last week that it would release seven patches, people were holding their breath....
ALAIN SERGILE So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to se...
ALAIN SERGILE This is something that is not inherent in the operating system.
ALAIN SERGILE The flaw is fairly significant in terms of its reach.
ALAIN SERGILE This requires no user interaction. Outlook has a broad footprint, and that makes this much more sign...
ALAIN SERGILE I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
ALAIN ROBERT Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
ALAIN ROBERT I don't really understand why they are charging me with criminal trespass, as I didn't even climb.
ALAIN ROBERT In Houston, it seems I'm not welcomed, so I will move on to some other countries.
ALAIN ROBERT They want me to go to jail for a little while.
ALAIN ROBERT All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
ALAIN ROBERT This way I can get an adrenaline rush through the adventure, rather than through drinks and injectio...
ALAIN ROBERT Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
ALAIN ROBERT In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
ALAIN ROBERT Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
ALAIN RESNAIS Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer...
ALAIN RESNAIS Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
ALAIN RESNAIS It's painful, either because the people onscreen have died, or because I don't think the direction i...
ALAIN RESNAIS It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
ALAIN RESNAIS I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea...
ALAIN RESNAIS I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAIS I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talki...
ALAIN RESNAIS I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
ALAIN RESNAIS For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself,...
ALAIN RESNAIS I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROST I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning o...
ALAIN PROST I always wanted to feel that I had enough knowledge and experience of the car that I could change it...
ALAIN PROST A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the b...
ALAIN PROST The real problem is that it (F1) is in a permanent state of conflict,
ALAIN PROST Three times before 1985, I just missed the title, so winning was a relief.
ALAIN PROST For him it is just the beginning. He has his whole career still ahead and (winning the title so earl...
ALAIN PROST I rely on Prost to negotiate the first corner and the rest of it.
ALAIN PROST When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROST Ayrton has this problem - he thinks that he can't kill himself.
ALAIN PROST He was unlucky. He made some great saves as well. We have to recover from this now and face a tough ...
ALAIN PERRIN When I first had contact with the chairman, I was very happy to come here.
ALAIN PERRIN I speak to the chairman all the time because he's close to the team,
ALAIN PERRIN Language is not a problem,
ALAIN PERRIN The closer we get to the end of the window the more clubs raise the price of the players and try to ...
ALAIN PERRIN He did very well considering he has only been here one day.
ALAIN PERRIN We will come back.
ALAIN PERRIN I certainly think he could do the job, ... because he has a lot of experience in football. He knows ...
ALAIN PERRIN I think the situation is not very difficult, it's more difficult for the other clubs, ... We have fo...
ALAIN PERRIN He deserves it. Four years this is his fourth year and he'll finally get his first (NHL) game. You...
ALAIN NASREDDINE He deserves it. Four years – this is his fourth year ââÂ...
ALAIN NASREDDINE It was unbelievable. It was good, especially because you don't really expect it. It just came as a s...
ALAIN NASREDDINE With everything that's happened the last couple of weeks, I'm going to sit down with my family and w...
ALAIN NASREDDINE She is gonna be happy for the rest of her life.
ALAIN MABOUSSOU It's too early for me to retire, but I did four days ago.
ALAIN MABOUSSOU I'm excited. I'm just excited. (My daughter) is going to be happy for the rest of her life.
ALAIN MABOUSSOU I'm gonna be working for myself now.
ALAIN MABOUSSOU Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN LESAGE They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.
ALAIN LESAGE I am happy and content because I think I am
ALAIN LESAGE Doubt is not below knowledge but above it
ALAIN LESAGE Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
ALAIN LESAGE The development of the pure vegetable oil sector could be an incredible opportunity to attract young...
ALAIN JUSTE We think that it is about time to end the French exception that goes against European wishes and lif...
ALAIN JUSTE Most of the oil production goes in car tanks.
ALAIN JUSTE At least 2,000 to 3,000 French motorists are using between 50 and 100 percent pure vegetable oil in ...
ALAIN JUSTE Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of express...
ALAIN JUPPE Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
ALAIN JUPPE If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am compl...
ALAIN JUPPE It's a warning, ... The game isn't over, and we're counting on winning the second round.
ALAIN JUPPE This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past ...
ALAIN JUPPE The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it, ... I wish good luck to thos...
ALAIN JUPPE did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.
ALAIN JUPPE The choice ... is entirely based on a defense-industrial logic,
ALAIN JUPPE (Juppe) noted that the talks had progressed greatly and wanted pressure to be kept up on the two sid...
ALAIN JUPPE There was an explosive device that was put in a subway car,
ALAIN JUPPE If you look at how oil prices are rising and greenhouse gas emission targets, then only agriculture ...
ALAIN JEANROY We are waiting for results before starting building the plants which should see the light of day in ...
ALAIN JEANROY We will reach two percent this year.
ALAIN JEANROY France will catch Spain up and possibly go beyond it by 2008.
ALAIN JEANROY On the Russian side, of course, they have in mind space tourism and propose a certain level of comfo...
ALAIN FOURNIER For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have sev...
ALAIN FOURNIER Experience has shown that it is very important within an international programme to have a robust ap...
ALAIN FOURNIER It's meant to service the space station and to go between Earth and an orbit around the Moon with si...
ALAIN FOURNIER The objective is to have a vehicle which is more comfortable than the Soyuz capsule which will be us...
ALAIN FOURNIER It's a great pleasure for me and my team. It was a surprise. A good surprise.
ALAIN DUCASSE He is the first chef-restaurateur who has dared to admit openly, and even elevate to the status of a...
ALAIN DUCASSE a man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
ALAIN DUCASSE Alain Chapelle [Ducasse's mentor], Alain Ducasse, Didier Elena - I learned from all of them.
ALAIN DUCASSE It's a Mediterranean garden on the roofs of Aoyama.
ALAIN DUCASSE You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.
ALAIN DELON In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.
ALAIN DELON I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
ALAIN DELON I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
ALAIN DELON That's how it caught the eye of the farmer and the vet.
ALAIN CHARETTE Quarantines will be lifted gradually when they reach 30 days, just as if nothing happened.
ALAIN CHARETTE It's in their best interests. . . so they take every step they need to protect their poultry.
ALAIN CHARETTE The disease is not here.
ALAIN CHARETTE If tomorrow, any other country in the EU were to discover a case in their own domestic flock, they g...
ALAIN CHARETTE All tests came back negative.
ALAIN CHARETTE People with PTSD tell me their life is so miserable, they're willing to try anything to feel better....
ALAIN BRUNET It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular mem...
ALAIN BRUNET We figure we need to test about 10 more people until we've got solid evidence.
ALAIN BRUNET It's not that people will no longer remember the trauma, but the memory will be less painful.
ALAIN BRUNET Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method o...
ALAIN BOTTON Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writer...
ALAIN BOTTON I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - tha...
ALAIN BOTTON I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare fa...
ALAIN BOTTON Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were w...
ALAIN BOTTON We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo...
ALAIN BOTTON The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho...
ALAIN BOTTON I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to usin...
ALAIN BOTTON We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who w...
ALAIN BOTTON It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as t...
ALAIN BOTTON We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste...
ALAIN BELDA However, as these markets continued to decline in the third quarter, it became likely that even with...
ALAIN BELDA achieve future sustained savings and profitable growth.
ALAIN BELDA The fourth quarter has proven to be extremely challenging as a result of lower volumes, depressed me...
ALAIN BELDA If economic trends solidify, we should continue to see improving profitability over the second half ...
ALAIN BELDA As demand for aluminum strengthens, we will capture the efficiencies generated by last year's strate...
ALAIN BELDA While we are not pleased with the short term impact the labor issues have had on our bottom line, ou...
ALAIN BELDA Despite significantly higher energy prices which offset more favorable metal prices, we achieved sol...
ALAIN BELDA We are focused on managing what is under our control,
ALAIN BELDA That is the best long-term job protection we can offer all of our employees.
ALAIN BELDA It's obviously very possible that, deep down, it's shaken my confidence. I've definitely taken a big...
ALAIN BAXTER It was a different scale to a World Cup, I only learned that last time. But then again, they [the IO...
ALAIN BAXTER I never got it together last season. Nothing clicked and my confidence went,
ALAIN BAXTER My memory has been tarnished by what happened at Salt Lake City but that was four years ago,
ALAIN BAXTER I could be very bitter about it, but I don't think it would help me, ... People would get bored of l...
ALAIN BAXTER But it's one race. I've got 12 races this year. If it doesn't happen it's not going to be the end of...
ALAIN BAXTER I'm happy racing and obviously I want to compete,
ALAIN BAXTER The ethics of Truth always returns, in precise circumstances, to fighting for the True against the f...
ALAIN BADIOU Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of sava...
ALAIN BADIOU It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the ideology of huma...
ALAIN BADIOU Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that whi...
ALAIN BADIOU Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. B...
ALAIN BADIOU Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed,...
ALAIN DUCASSE Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
ALAIN CHARTIER Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
HENRI ALAIN One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the wo...
ALAIN FRENCH There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOU It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all...
ALAIN DUCASSE One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk ...
ALAIN PROST I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interes...
ALAIN DUCASSE Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dinin...
ALAIN DUCASSE In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it fo...
ALAIN DUCASSE If I'm a great artisan of the kitchen, it's because I don't buy my sauces.
ALAIN DUCASSE TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
ALAIN DUCASSE You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray any...
ALAIN DELON If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virg...
ALAIN DUCASSE I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...
ALAIN BADIOU The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your whee...
ALAIN PROST The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions su...
ALAIN ASPECT It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with every...
ALAIN PROST It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the ...
ALAIN DUCASSE . . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imag...
ALAIN LOCKE I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet p...
ALAIN DUCASSE Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how...
ALAIN DUCASSE You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
ALAIN DUCASSE The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
ALAIN RESNAIS It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
ALAIN ROBERT Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could ha...
ALAIN PROST I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
ALAIN DUCASSE We can make savings in these direct costs while maintaining our sponsorship levels and improving the...
ALAIN DASSAS With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sen...
ALAIN DUCASSE There is a panoply of candidates there representing every interest, including gays and lesbians, wom...
ALAIN GAGNON People like Bouchard and Parizeau have left extraordinarily big footprints,
ALAIN GAGNON It's a way of showing compassion and sympathy with people in trouble.
ALAIN GAGNON I'd like to get to the point where words like Yom Kippur, or Ramadan, or Christmas become part of th...
ALAIN ELKANN Being moderate or tolerant or open is not a sign of weakness but of civilization and strength, ... I...
ALAIN ELKANN The intention was not to say that all religions are equal but that all people are equal, and that ac...
ALAIN ELKANN By the end of this year 75 percent of our six-inch production will be in Singapore.
ALAIN DUTHEIL How could anyone do this? One job in four private sector jobs depends on exports and the country att...
ALAIN DUHAMEL We have already signed up for 2008, which means we want to continue. But we are realistic as well, b...
ALAIN DASSAS By June we should know the new economic equation. If we have achieved the savings we want then we wi...
ALAIN DASSAS This open-source addition to our existing product line also allows us to bring our core technology t...
ALAIN COUDER Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow brings an exotic blend of action and adventure ...
ALAIN CORRE We have nearly 45,000 fans inside the stadium, nearly all of them are fantastic. We are not a club o...
ALAIN CAYZAC This season's work has been outstanding. We need continuity and stability. So I come with Guy Lacomb...
ALAIN CAYZAC Text messages and mobile phones ... help small groups of rioters. They can connect easily. It's not ...
ALAIN BAUER There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.
ALAIN DUCASSE The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitle...
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