Epictetus Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Everything is real on me.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.
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All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
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I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
