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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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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.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
Samantha Fox
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I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
Mary Steenburgen
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All I want to say to people, man, is, "Yo, you see me walking down the street and I got a little bop in my walk, don't think because I've got a bop in my walk I'm trying to be all that. The bop in my walk is because I'm just like you, man. I bop when I walk." Know what I'm saying? I'm proud. If you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because I'm conceited. It's because I'm proud of what I achieved. I made this. I worked hard for this. That's all this is about.
LL Cool J
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
Barry Lam
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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
