"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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