Quintilian Quotes
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions.
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I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.
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Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
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If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.
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The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.
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We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
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Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.
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There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
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The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
