Quintilian Quotes
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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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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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
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I am very much a family man.
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I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
