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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Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
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Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
