Epicurus Quotes
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Quotes to Explore
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
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I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
