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.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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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.
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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.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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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.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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It is no more than fair that England, now that she has attained the culminating point of her industrial growth and progress, should restore again to the nations of Continental Europe a portion of those productive forces which she originally derived from them.
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I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
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Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
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I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.
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We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.
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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.
