Epictetus Quotes
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
Epictetus
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
Laura Osnes
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
Bassem Youssef
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Barry Eisler
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Jack Davenport
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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
John Hodgman
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To save one life, Mr. Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that. A kindly man like Mr. Tagomi could be driven insane by the implications of such reality.
Philip K. Dick
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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
Bill Gates
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As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
Masayoshi Son
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
Epictetus