Epictetus Quotes
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Epictetus
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
Patrick M. Byrne
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
Ian Caldwell
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
Wangari Maathai
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
A. A. Milne
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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane
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Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.
John Eldredge
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Aristotle
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We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Epictetus