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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with | "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with | ||
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz | themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz | ||
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- | "You do not really understand something unless you can | ||
- | explain it to your grandmother." -- Albert Einstein | ||
"Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne | "Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne | ||
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"Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison." -- Victor Hugo | "Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison." -- Victor Hugo | ||
- | "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." | + | "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." |
-- Henny Youngman | -- Henny Youngman | ||
- | "Quiconque croit que la croissance exponentielle peut continuer sans fin, | + | "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite |
- | dans un monde fini, est soit un fou, soit un économiste." | + | world is either a madman or an economist." |
- | -- Kenneth Boulding, économiste | + | -- Kenneth Boulding, economist |
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- | "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world | + | |
- | is either a madman or an economist." -- Kenneth Boulding, economist | + | |
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- | "You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." | + | |
- | -- Dave Barry | + | |
"When the winds of change are blowing, some people are | "When the winds of change are blowing, some people are | ||
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à nos enfants." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | à nos enfants." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
- | Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a | + | "Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is |
- | self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence -- Evelin Linder | + | a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence" -- Evelin Linder |
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not | "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not | ||
- | care who gets the credit." -- Harry S Truman | + | care who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman |
"La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six | "La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six | ||
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quelque chose, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique... et vous verrez | quelque chose, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique... et vous verrez | ||
lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir." -- Dalaï Lama | lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir." -- Dalaï Lama | ||
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- | "Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, | ||
- | lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness | ||
- | and then is suddenly gone." -- Hodding Carter | ||
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- | "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." | ||
- | -- Douglas Adams | ||
"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. | "Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. | ||
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"Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas | "Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas | ||
pour que ça ne se vende plus ! " -- Coluche | pour que ça ne se vende plus ! " -- Coluche | ||
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- | "L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote." -- Pierre Desproges | ||
Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts | Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts | ||
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without | "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without | ||
changing a single idea." -- Robert Anton Wilson | changing a single idea." -- Robert Anton Wilson | ||
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- | "You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and | ||
- | wonder what else you could do while you're down there." | ||
- | -- George Burns | ||
"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where | "CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where | ||
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traditional buddhism, then we'll simply have to abandon that | traditional buddhism, then we'll simply have to abandon that | ||
aspect of traditional buddhism." -- Dalaï Lama | aspect of traditional buddhism." -- Dalaï Lama | ||
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+ | "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its | ||
+ | thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." -- Thucydides | ||
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+ | "Between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our | ||
+ | power to choose our response. In our response lies our freedom." | ||
+ | -- Viktor Frankl | ||
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+ | "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." | ||
+ | -- John Lennon | ||
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+ | "It's a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't | ||
+ | have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last on | ||
+ | people we don't care about." -- Tim Jackson | ||
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+ | "Si vous jugez un poisson par sa capacité à grimper à un arbre, il va | ||
+ | passer sa vie entière à croire qu’il est stupide." -- Albert Einstein | ||
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+ | "Les altruistes ne sont ni plus ni moins rationnels que les égoïstes. | ||
+ | Ils poursuivent simplement des buts différents." -- Robert Frank | ||
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+ | "Le bien-être d'une nation ne peut pas être déduit de la mesure | ||
+ | de son PIB." -- Simon Kuznets, inventeur du PIB, prix Nobel | ||
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+ | "The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of | ||
+ | national income." -- Simon Kuznets, GNP inventor, Nobel prize winner. | ||
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+ | "Traitez les gens comme s'ils étaient ce qu'ils devrait être, et vous | ||
+ | les aiderez ainsi à devenir ce qu'ils peuvent être." -- Goethe | ||
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+ | "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help | ||
+ | them become what they are capable of being." -- Goethe | ||
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+ | "Les chiffres sont accablants : il y a de plus en plus d'étrangers | ||
+ | dans le monde." -- Pierre Desproges | ||
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+ | Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have. | ||
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+ | Concentre-toi sur ce que tu as plutôt que sur ce que tu n'as pas. | ||
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+ | "When you have to classify the very capacity of the Earth to support | ||
+ | human life as an "externality", then it is time to rethink your theory." | ||
+ | -- Herman Daly | ||
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+ | "Ce n'est pas un signe de bonne santé que d'être bien adapté à une | ||
+ | société profondément malade." -- J. Krishnamurti | ||
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