Democritus Quotes
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
Ingmar Bergman
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
Nate Parker
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
Daniel Espinosa
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
Laura Moser
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls
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To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
Sage Stallone
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
Majandra Delfino
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
Patricia Cornwell
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
Naomi Wolf
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
Dana Boente
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The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
Samuel Beckett
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It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...
Oswald Spengler
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You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.
Barbara Marciniak
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The royal refugee our breed restoresWith foreign courtiers and with foreign whores,And carefully repeopled us again,Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.
Daniel Defoe
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When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.
Elise Andrew
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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
Asa Gray
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus