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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.


Pierre Joseph Proudhon

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PIERRE BOULEZ A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Les gens ne connaissent pas leur bonheur... mais celui des autres ne leur échappe pas
PIERRE DANINOS Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
PIERRE BONNARD One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
PIERRE BONNARD Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
PIERRE BOURDIEU The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to corre...
PIERRE BOULEZ There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD