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Hippolyte Taine has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs…
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and…
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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what…
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and…
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous,…
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Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about…
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I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
— Conrad Hall
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies,…
— Salman Khan
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Well you have to do a tremendous amount of research and if you're playing someone who's a real life person, especially someone…
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