Epictetus Quotes
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
