Epictetus Quotes
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Epictetus
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
Eliot Spitzer
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
Cliff Martinez
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Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
James Stewart
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
Jimmie Davis
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Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.
George Foreman
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.
Hannah Hoch
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
Kate Forsyth
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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
Jane Austen
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
Emile Verhaeren
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
Naveen Jain
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The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
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