Plutarch Quotes
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.Plutarch
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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.
Vaclav Klaus -
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.
H. Robert Horvitz -
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.
Karan Singh Grover -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Kate Thompson
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
Taylor Lautner -
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard -
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
Pat Metheny -
Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Samuel Beckett -
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.
Jackie Robinson
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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.
Walker Percy -
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Benjamin Rush -
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.
Clifford D. Simak -
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
Charli XCX -
Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.
David Suzuki
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I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.
Brandon Stanton -
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
Phyllis Schlafly -
Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?
Dan Castellaneta -
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
Thomas Bulfinch -
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin -
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
Plutarch