Georges Clemenceau Quotes - Page 2

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• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Believe, Player, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 11, 1930.

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• This time it will be a long one.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Time, Long, Dying

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Teaching, Learning, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

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• One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Art, Substance, Growing

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• It is easier to make war than to make peace.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech, Verdun, France, 20 July 1919

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Garden

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