Lactantius Quotes
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Europe can be saved.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.
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I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
