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 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.
Ford Frick
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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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For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
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A change of feeling is a change of destiny.
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Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
