A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer an... by Paul Valery | We Heart Quotes

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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

- Paul Valery

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Disorder

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

- Paul Valery

People

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

- Paul Valery

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

- Paul Valery

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

- Paul Valery

Science Rest

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

- Paul Valery

People

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

- Paul Valery

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