"The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose……" — George Will
"The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany"
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175 Quotes by George Will
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did,…
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it…
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible…
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of…
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral…
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the…
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More France Quotes
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
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In France they don't think I'm difficult.
— David Bailey
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I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I am against the Islamisation of France.
— Brigitte Bardot
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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in…
— Ben Barnes
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
— Yogi Berra
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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