Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes
Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa, quae ignorauerit aduersarius, antequam facias.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
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I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.
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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
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I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.
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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
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There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
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...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
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I have had a lot of thoughts about Columbia and I will have thoughts after the landing, We're all going to be very focused ... on the job at hand.
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Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa, quae ignorauerit aduersarius, antequam facias.
