Plutarch Quotes
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.
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Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
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The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
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Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
