Plotinus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
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Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
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I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.
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I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
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I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.
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There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
