Epictetus Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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You don't fear for your life in the middle of a storm, you can't really afford to.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
