Diogenes Quotes
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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The more unsettling the more I feel at home.
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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.
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Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.
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But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.
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People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.
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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.
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Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
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“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.”
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
