Pythagoras Quotes
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
Quotes to Explore
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.
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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.
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Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.
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Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
