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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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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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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I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
