Democritus Quotes
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Quotes to Explore
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
