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Georges Cuvier

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KELLY JONES Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I do not pilfer victory.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath plac...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim...
BASIL THE GREAT We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
CYRUS THE GREAT All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find ...
CYRUS THE GREAT Every man has a wild beast within him.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against th...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
CATHERINE THE GREAT When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one...
BASIL THE GREAT My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 All that which our blessed Saviour wroug...
GREGORY THE GREAT All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT EPIPHANY Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to...
LEO THE GREAT I have head the nightingale herself.
AGESILAUS, THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not t...
AGESILAUS, THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks
FREDERICK THE GREAT When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All o...
ALFRED, THE GREAT Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]
CATHERINE, THE GREAT The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT

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GEORGES CLEMENCEAU All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
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GEORGES DUHAMEL We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
GEORGES DUHAMEL America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degen...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
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GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
GEORGES COURTELINE Out of limitations, new forms emerge
GEORGES BRAQUE If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
GEORGES GUYNEMER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tri...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
GEORGES BATAILLE Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhea...
GEORGES BATAILLE Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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GEORGES BATAILLE The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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GEORGES BERNANOS Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur an...
GEORGES BATAILLE Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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GEORGES BERNANOS War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
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GEORGES BATAILLE Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to co...
GEORGES BERNANOS No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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GEORGES BATAILLE What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from ...
GEORGES BERNANOS To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
GEORGES BATAILLE And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ...
GEORGES BERNANOS A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at...
GEORGES BATAILLE At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in ge...
GEORGES BATAILLE Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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GEORGES BERNANOS God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of the...
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GEORGES BERNANOS It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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GEORGES BERNANOS When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize...
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GEORGES DANTON Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGES BATAILLE The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
GEORGES BERNANOS I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
GEORGES BATAILLE Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
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GEORGES SEURAT Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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GEORGES BIZET Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
GEORGES BRAQUE Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o...
GEORGES BERNANOS Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
GEORGES SEURAT The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
GEORGES SIMENON Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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GEORGES BATAILLE The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep ...
GEORGES DUHAMEL Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
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GEORGES CLéMENCEAU For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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GEORGES DUHAMEL We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The H...
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GEORGES BERNANOS Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
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GEORGES SIMENON I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
GEORGES SIMENON Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress...
GEORGES RODENBACH War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
GEORGES COURTELINE A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener...
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GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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GEORGES BERNANOS It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
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GEORGES ROUAULT Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime.
SEAN GEORGES I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
GEORGES SIMENON Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means
GEORGES BERNANOS Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in...
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GEORGES AUGUSTE The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless...
GEORGES ROUAULT He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
GEORGES POMPIDOU Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual, it is mostly ...
GEORGES BERTRAND A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...
GEORGES BERNANOS It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
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GEORGES BATAILLE Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
GEORGES BERNANOS It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre...
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BILL GEORGES I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT Oh to be seventy again.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
GEORGES POMPIDOU The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run
GEORGES BERNANOS To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
GEORGES BRAQUE There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
GEORGES BRAQUE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.
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GEORGES BATAILLE I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
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GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
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GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto...
GEORGES BATAILLE Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON It was a rough one.
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GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
GEORGES BENJAMIN People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a litt...
GEORGES BENJAMIN I'm certainly not surprised we don't have a death toll.
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