Epictetus Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I always remember liking school.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
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I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.
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The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
