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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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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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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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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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There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.
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You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
