Quote by Alexandre Dumas
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a d

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas

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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. – Alexandre Dumas

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Alexandre Dumas

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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. – Martin Luther

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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. – Coco Chanel

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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, Ive never played with a band. Ive always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. – Steve Martin

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It is very easy to love alone. – Gertrude Stein

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. – G. K. Chesterton

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You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. – Galway Kinnell

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