Publilius Syrus Quotes
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.
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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
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What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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There’s no way to use power for good.
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The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.
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The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.
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From my limited and immature child’s point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the United States of America, along with the original disciples of Jesus, an uncalculated number of genuine Christians who had lived throughout the ages, and many but not all of those mentioned in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which I first read at the age of eight when I found it on my parents’ book shelf.
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Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.
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I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.
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Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.
