Epictetus Quotes
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
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This is the potential start of something...awareness
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
