Epictetus Quotes
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
Rachel Caine
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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
Jay-Z
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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
Elizabeth Smart
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
Abraham Lincoln
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.
Alice Waters
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Inspired by the punched railway tickets of the time, an inventor by the name of Herman Hollerith devised a system of punched manila cards to store information, and a machine, which he called the Hollerith Machine, to count and sort them. Hollerith was awarded a patent in 1889, and the government adopted the Hollerith Machine for the 1890 census. No one had ever seen anything like it. Wrote one awestruck observer, “The apparatus works as unerringly as the mills of the Gods, but beats them hollow as to speed.” Another, however, reasoned that the invention was of limited use: “As no one will ever use it but governments, the inventor will not likely get very rich.” This prediction, which Hollerith clipped and saved, would not prove entirely correct. Hollerith’s firm merged with several others in 1911 to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. A few years later it was renamed—to International Business Machines, or IBM.
Brian Christian
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If something's important to you, you make time for it.
Mia Maestro
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
Mike Tyson
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
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