Plutarch Quotes
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
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I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.
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As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
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I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.
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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
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I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.
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To the young ones she would say bravely that her husband did not love her, but that she could never, never hurt him.
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There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
