Epictetus Quotes
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?

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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.
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Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.
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Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?