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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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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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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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.
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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I long to be free-desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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.
