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 definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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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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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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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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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
