Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.
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When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
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My office is definitely an extension of my personality. I spend more time here than anywhere else, so it's important that it reflects my style and that it's an inspiring place to think - although it's admittedly impossible to keep clean with a gazillion beauty products coming in and out all the time.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
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This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.
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A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
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Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.
