Plutarch Quotes
A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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I was never really good in school.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
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I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'
