Publilius Syrus Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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Never explain, never complain.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
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I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.
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"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make.
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It's a lot of years. Not many guys get the opportunity to play their whole career with one organization, and I'm very happy.
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
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Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
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Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
