Dante Alighieri Quotes
Ciascun confusamente un bene apprendenel qual si queti l'animo, e disira;per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.
Dante Alighieri
Quotes to Explore
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You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.
Garth Nix
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How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? asks security guard Is seventeen legal?
Alice Cooper
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It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Edward Gibbon
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What today's decision will stand for, whether the Justices can bring themselves to say it or not, is the power of the Supreme Court to write a prophylactic, extraconstitutional Constitution, binding on Congress and the States.
Antonin Scalia
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Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Methinks in those thy coward fearsThere might, perchance, a courage be,That fails in these the manlier years;Courage to let the courage sink,Itself a coward base to think,Rather than not for heavenly lightWait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized “cargo”: “It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although they are living things they are as good as gold.” Columbus gave permission to his crew who remained in Hispaniola to enslave the native Taino people “in the amount desired.” Columbus awarded a teenage Taino girl to one of his crew, Miguel Cuneo, for use as his sex slave. Cuneo bragged that when she “resisted with all her strength,” he “thrashed her mercilessly and raped her.” Columbus bestowed this kind of “employee benefit” on many of his men, writing to a friend about large numbers of “dealers” who specialized in supplying young girls to the so-called Christians, adding, “those from nine to ten [years old] are now in demand.
Brian D. McLaren
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
Herbert Spencer
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With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione
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Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
Brian K. Vaughan
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My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.
Al Roker
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Ciascun confusamente un bene apprendenel qual si queti l'animo, e disira;per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.
Dante Alighieri
