Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
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Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
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Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.
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I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
