Plutarch Quotes
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
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He who labours, prays.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration's diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am offended.
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I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.
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My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.
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As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
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It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
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I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.
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When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
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I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.
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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
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I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.
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The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.
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Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.
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Indeed, I would argue that, in situations of considerable slack, growth that is generated solely by increased productivity, and that is unaccompanied by substantial employment growth, may possibly require monetary ease, rather than monetary tightening, in the short run.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
