Plutarch Quotes
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
Kate Brown
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Walter Jon Williams
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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
Barry Marshall
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
Ram Charan
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
Rain
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The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934
Leon Trotsky
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Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
Jason Williams
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My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
Janet Reno
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I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!
John Boyega
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…
Oscar Wilde
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Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
Seneca the Younger
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Pure research is worth every penny it costs.
Harold Urey
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
