Plutarch Quotes
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
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Love forbids you not to love.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
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He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.
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Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.
