Epictetus Quotes
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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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.
Ralph Fiennes
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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.
Rachel Tucker
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian
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A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.
Chris Prentiss
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Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries
Taliesin
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Patrick Henry
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
