Plutarch Quotes
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
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It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
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I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
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The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.
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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.
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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
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This has nothing to do with that, ... If the feds begin to do what they need to do, the relative role of the state agencies would diminish. Nothing I've said means that we wouldn't do all our cases over again.
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
