Plotinus Quotes
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
