Plotinus Quotes
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I've grown so much. I'm more picky about what I'll do,and I'm more of a businesswoman. But at the same time, I take care of myself. All I used to do was work. Now I'm comfortable in my own skin and have a good balance.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
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NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To Extradition.'
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
