Epictetus Quotes
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
Epictetus
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
Garth Stein
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
Adam DeVine
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells
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I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.
Wanda Sykes
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Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.
Marie Helvin
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Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
John Locke
Nazareth
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
Epictetus
