Plutarch Quotes
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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No other player on this club with the possible exception of Bruce Walker has done more to put the Dodgers up in the race than Robinson has. He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal.
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I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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It was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than as a person.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
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I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!
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On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
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I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.
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African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
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Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
