Epictetus Quotes
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.
Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
Carlene Carter
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
Dan Fogelberg
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
Samantha Power
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
Naomi Klein
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus
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In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
Emily Kuroda
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Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
Haruki Murakami
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Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
Jazz Jennings
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To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
C. S. Lewis
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“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”
David Rosenhan
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.
Epictetus