Democritus Quotes
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
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'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
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When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.
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When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
