Democritus Quotes
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
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I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.
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I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
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It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
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我们需要的是热烈而镇定的情绪，紧张而有秩序的工作。
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
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Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...
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Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.
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A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
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It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
