Plutarch Quotes

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

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• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
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• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Believe
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• I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  

  Quintilian
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• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• 100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
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• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Man
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• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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• I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

  

  Edi Rama
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• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
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  • Man

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
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• I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

  

  Maluma
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• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
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  • Beauty

• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Man
  • Past

• As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Child

• If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Want
  • Small
  • Moment

• I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

  

  Andrew Garfield
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• The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Gods