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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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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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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I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
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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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You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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I am, each day,typing out the Godmy typewriter believes in.Very quick. Very intense,like a wolf at a live heart.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
