Epictetus Quotes
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen.
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Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
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Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
