Pliny the Elder Quotes
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
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Ultima ratio Regum
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Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
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You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
