Chilon of Sparta Quotes
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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It's my job as governor to set a vision.
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Do not make too much haste on one's road.
