Epictetus Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.
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Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives.
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
