Epictetus Quotes
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
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I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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Quo magis in dubiis hominem spectare periclisconvenit adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit;nam verae voces tum demum pectore ab imoeliciuntur et eripitur persona, manet res.
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I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.
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We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
