Epictetus Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
Ramana Maharshi -
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
R. Kelly -
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
Orison Swett Marden -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
Oriana Fallaci
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
Kate Moss -
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull -
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
Barton Gellman -
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell -
Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
Aaron Lazar -
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
Eddie Marsan -
When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.
Tyler Florence -
It’s like disco inferno up in here.
Rachel Caine -
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete Seeger -
To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.
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