Publilius Syrus Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.
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You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.
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Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
