Plutarch Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.
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It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.
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I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
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What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
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My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
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There's nothing fake about flipping over and landing on your back.
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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'
