Epictetus Quotes

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

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• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• 'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Movies

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Been
  • Well
  • Taiwan

• When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Missing

• I'm a hands-on dad.

  

  Eric Dane
  • Dad

• A president can't go to every memorial service.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Service
  • President
  • Memorial

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

  

  Verite
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Band

• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  

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