Pythagoras Quotes
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
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The best tool today is longevity insurance - they call it income insurance. Most people know the value of life insurance. But what if you live? So instead of trying to guess one or the other, you plan for those 20 years and you get this income insurance. If you live beyond 85, you have money that's guaranteed for as long as you live in the form of an annuity.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
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Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.
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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
