Publilius Syrus Quotes
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.
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There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.
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As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
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The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.
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The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.
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We are world leaders, and we need to act like it.
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What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
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Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
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There's so many other talented women of color who write funny things every day, and I want them to be recognized, I want them to have a seat at the table because we're out here.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
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I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.
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From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
