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Emmanuel Petit
Emmanuel Laurent Petit is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona, Monaco, and Chelsea. He represented France at international level in two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships; he scored the third goal in France's 3–0 victory in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final and was also a member of the French squad that won…
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sports · French footballer (born 1970) · association football player · also Emmanuel Petit, Emmanuel Laurent Petit, Petit
Born 22 September 1970 · Q269883
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2026· 43 entries
“I had to leave because I needed a new target in my life”
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“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions.”
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“Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.”
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“If we neglect objects of charity at home, or within the circle of our immediate acquaintance, to extend our good deeds to those abroad, our sincerity, our motives, and our character, are suspected, and there is ground of suspicion. For it is in the order of nature to relieve, first, by our liberality and benefactions, those connected with us, - our families, and immediate neighborhood.”
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“Call your Husband Cuckold in Jest and he'll ne'er suspect you.”
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“A lifestyle that involves neither staying up late nor sleeping late is good for body and mind and leads to financial success.”
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“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
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“To those who are given to virtue, the boast of titles is wholly alien and distasteful.”
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“I wish to persuade the reader that, whatever the arguments may be, reason lays no embargo upon happiness; nay, more, I am persuaded that those who quite sincerely attribute their sorrows to their views about the universe are putting the cart before the horse: the truth is that they are unhappy for some reason of which they are not aware, and this unhappiness leads them to dwell upon the less agreeable characteristics of the world in which they live.”
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“Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.”
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“This proverb imitates that an inbred Philauty runs through the whole Race of Flefh and Blood. It blinds the Underftanding, perverts the Judgment and depraves the Reafon of the Diftinguishers of Truth and Falfity.”
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“It bears no reason that others should show greater love to me, than I have showed them.”
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“Liars must remember the untruths they have told, to avoid contradicting themselves at some later date.”
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“Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.”
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“The reason that there are so few good conversationalists is that most people are thinking about what they are going to say and not about what the others are saying.”
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“The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.”
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“When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.”
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“We should never use an old tool when the extra labor in consequence costs more than a new one. Thousands wear out their lives and waste their time merely by the use of dull and unsuitable instruments.”
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“We often apply it to exchanges among servants, clerks, or any persons employed, whose service, at first, in any new place, is very good, both efficient and faithful; but very soon, when all the new circumstances have lost their novelty, and all their curiosity has ceased, they naturally fall into their former and habitual slackness.”
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
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“Be they wynners or loosers,…beggers should be no choosers.”
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“Plans are insulted destinies. I don't have plans, I only have goals.”
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“Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world.”
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“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.”
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“Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents.”
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“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers.”
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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
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“The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.”
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“Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.”
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“In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better.”
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“Working hard for others one may neglect one's own needs or the needs of those closest to him.”
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“You are more likely to win if you take the initiative and make an attack rather than preparing to defend yourself.”
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“Two things a man can't hide; that he is drunk and that he is in love.”
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“A good way to define alcohol abuse is this: If it causes a problem, it is a problem.”
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“A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!”
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“Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
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“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
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“If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.”
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“The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.”
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2018· 1 entry
“The only thing I learn from my mistakes is how to make them more spectacular.”
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2013· 1 entry
“Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.”
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2012· 1 entry
“I always search good in bad. l also search bad in good.”
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2008· 1 entry
The midfielder gave his time at Barcelona a special chapter in which he exposed that coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer did not even know what position he played when he joined the team
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2007· 5 entries
“We must always give people credit for their good intentions, even if they fail to carry them through.”
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“It is wiser to withdraw from a situation that you cannot win than to go on fighting and lose – by a strategic retreat you can return to the battle or argument with renewed energy at a later date.”
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“Hesitation or procastination may lead to trouble or disaster.”
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“Action taken to put something right is often more unpleasant or damaging than the original problem.”
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“You must put up with the unpleasant results of a foolish action or decision.”
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2001· 2 entries
Played for Chelsea F.C. (2001–2004) — 55 appearances, 2 goals.
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Joined Chelsea in 2001.
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2000· 4 entries
Won: UEFA European Championship with France (2000).
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Played for FC Barcelona (2000–2001) — 23 appearances, 1 goals.
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But they divorced in 2002 after having two children, Zoe and Louise Petit
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Joined Barcelona in 2000.
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1999· 3 entries
Won the English FA Community Shield with Arsenal (1999).
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Won award: PFA Premier League Team of the Year (1998–99).
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Won: FA Charity Shield with Arsenal (1999).
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1998· 13 entries
Won the English Premier League with Arsenal (1997-1998).
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Won the FIFA World Cup with France (1998).
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Won the English FA Community Shield with Arsenal (1998).
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Won the English FA Cup with Arsenal (1997-1998).
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Third place: Onze de (1998).
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Won: Premier League with Arsenal (1997–98).
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Won: FA Cup with Arsenal (1997–98).
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Won: FA Charity Shield with Arsenal (1998).
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Won: FIFA World Cup with France (1998).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1998).
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Won award: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1998).
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Won award: Premier League Player of the Month (April 1998).
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“For if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
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1997· 5 entries
Won: Division 1 with Monaco (1996–97).
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“Alcohol consumed removes the inhibition against telling the truth that occasionally one would like to keep secret.”
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“When in trouble first of all every one themselves should do their best to improve their condition.”
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Played for Arsenal F.C. (1997–2000) — 85 appearances, 9 goals.
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Joined Arsenal in 1997.
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1991· 2 entries
Won: Coupe de France with Monaco (1990–91).
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Won the Coupe de France with Monaco and also played in the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final (which Monaco lost to Werder Bremen)
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1990· 3 entries
Won award: Division 1 Rookie of the Year (1990).
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Played for France men's national association football team (1990–2003) — 63 appearances, 6 goals.
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Joined France in 1990.
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1989· 1 entry
“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”
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1988· 3 entries
Olivier collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead due to a blood clot of the brain
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Played for AS Monaco FC (1988–1997) — 222 appearances, 4 goals.
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Joined Monaco in 1988.
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1985· 1 entry
“The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”
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1975· 1 entry
“What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-09-22.
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1937· 1 entry
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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1904· 1 entry
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
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1885· 1 entry
“The man who thinks before he acts, is most likely to act with discretion, and have no future cause to repent of his conduct; but he who acts blindly, without any foresight, will probably suffer for his rashness.”
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1862· 2 entries
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
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“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
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1845· 2 entries
“Gifts and donations in general, whether their value be more or less, should be accounted tokens of kindness and received with promptness and cordiality.”
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“The taste, not the looks, must constitute the criterion. It may be like, many other things, beautiful externally but within devoid of every excellence.”
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1842· 1 entry
“Mere words have no value unless they are followed by positive action.”
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