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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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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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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I believe in working on the music right up until it's ready. And then I'll worry about how to let people know it's there.
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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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During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, 'fit to split the ears of groundlings.' He asked if it had a name, and I said 'Indianapolis.'
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
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The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.
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Figuring out women is harder than topping a ManPro Quiz.
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
