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Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about people, individuality, limits, grace, work, things, good, good luck

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness...

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about people, perfection, man

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family....

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about woman, destruction, destiny, family

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about woman, wish, good, good luck

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about opinion, hope

Love of my life

Love of my life, you've hurt me You've broken my heart and now you leave me Love of my life, can't you see? Bring it back, bring it back Don't take it away from me, because you don't know What it means to me Love of my life, don't leave...

Quote by Freddie Mercury about love, life, heart

Killer Queen She keeps her Moet et Chandon In her pretty cabinet "Let them eat cake", she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can't decline Caviar and cigarettes...

Quote by Freddie Mercury about poetry, mind, perfume, cars, conversation, action, man

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about peace, problems

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be...

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about law, power, mind

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast...

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about union, peace

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a...

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about authority, common sense

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about peace, war, time

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about gifts, influence, character, man, power

By the same token it must follow that the state we now call a small state is in reality a power if it plays such a role in the development of civilization that it marches in the front ranks and wins victories in the fight for law which surpass...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about state, evolution, civilization, fight, reality, law, power

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about essential, thinking

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that...

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about union

In the Danish Parliament, all members of the Lower House, without exception, are members of the interparliamentary group, and so are all but eleven members of the Upper House.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about home, house

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example...

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about war, example, idea

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature, peace, good, good luck

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about vice, doubt

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