Demosthenes Quotes
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
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There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
Rachael Ray
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Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
Malin Akerman
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Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.
Joel Grey
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
Jim Butcher
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
Oliver Goldsmith
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More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.
Paul Di Filippo
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I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.
John David Washington
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes
