Plutarch Quotes
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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Whenever the government fails to prevent a plane crash, the event is cited as justification for having the government prevent plane crashes.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.
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Once more I hear the everlasting seaBreathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast
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You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah
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In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.
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Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
