Democritus Quotes
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Victoria Jackson
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
Dana Perino
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
Oscar Hijuelos
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
Danger Mouse
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
Gail Carson Levine
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
Samantha Fox
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
Salman Rushdie
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Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.
Jon Bon Jovi
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A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.
Hal Duncan
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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
Clint Smith
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
