Plutarch Quotes

Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, 'The die is cast,' he took the river.

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

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• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

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• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

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• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

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• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
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• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
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• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
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• The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
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• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
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  • Danger

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Change
  • Safety
  • Stock

• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

  

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• I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

  

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• It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

  

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• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
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• The reality is, we don’t want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Kids
  • Reality
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• Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
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• Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

  

  Homer
  • Die
  • First
  • Great Thing

• Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, 'The die is cast,' he took the river.

  

  Plutarch
  • Die
  • River
  • Bold