Lactantius Quotes
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
