Madonna Quotes

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Madonna quotes
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment. Madonna

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. Madonna

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK. Madonna

I wouldn’t have turned out the way I was if I didn’t have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. Madonna
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Will Rogers Quotes

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Will Rogers quotesEven if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. Will Rogers

I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat! Will Rogers

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out? Will Rogers
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte quotesMen are never attached to you by favours. Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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Charles Dudley Warner quotesPolitics makes strange bed-fellows. Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Charles Dudley Warner

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
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Carl Sagan Quotes

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Carl Sagan quotesIt is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. Carl Sagan

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. Carl Sagan
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Jean Baudrillard Quotes

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Jean Baudrillard quotesSanta Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard

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