'Maman', said Annaïse, her voice strangely weak. 'Here is the water.' A thin blade of silver came forward in the plain and the peasants...
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The results that you achieved at the Athens Olympics last year have shown Chinese sports is really getting to the top.
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I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,
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You my dear, are too beautiful, both in body and soul, to be considered inside the boundaries of ordinary human existence. That is why i love you, and will forever more...
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I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
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Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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One of the proofs that the taste of flesh is not natural to man is the indifference which children exhibit for that sort of meat, and the preference they all give to vegetable foods, such as milk-porridge, pastry, fruits, etc. It is of the last importance not to de-naturalize them of this primitive taste and not to render them carnivorous, if not for health reasons, at least for the sake of their character. For, however the experience may be explained, it is certain that great eaters of flesh are, in general, more cruel and ferocious than other men. This observation is true of all places and of all times.
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But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
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I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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The use of civilian nuclear energy, which is perfectly legitimate, must not serve as a pretext for pursuing activities that could actually be aimed at building up a military nuclear arsenal,
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will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend.
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English coarseness is well known. The Gaures, on the contrary, are the gentlest of men. All savages are cruel, and it is not their morals that urge them to be so; this cruelty proceeds from their food. They go to war as to the chase, and treat men as they do bears. Even in England the butchers are not received as legal witnesses any more than surgeons. And great criminals harden themselves to murder by drinking [animal] blood.
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The bulletins may have been presented as medical but in reality they were texts drawn up by the patient and his advisers. This wasn't medical communication but the filtering out of politically-based information,
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
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Secularity is one of the republic's great achievements, ... It plays a crucial role in social harmony and national cohesion. We must not allow it to be weakened.
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I requested a budget to support employment, spending power and the preparation of the future. This 2006 budget meets this requirements,
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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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not a force of division, but a force of harmony.
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I am convinced that, in view of the political and technological evolution of humanity, a major power will by necessity be democratic,
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What I'm saying is, you have to look at the problems, file by file, case by case, and solve them, ... Find a right way to solve them. But we can't do that without the United Nations. It won't work.
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I do not like this word 'bomb.' It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
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Now you know Danton: in a few hours he will fall asleep in the arms of glory.
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a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.
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I absolutely share the feelings of President Clinton that there can be no economic development aid to a regime which is not democratic,
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