Plutarch Quotes
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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To survive is to win.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
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If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
