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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All things are hush'd, as Nature's self lay dead,The Mountains seem to nod their drowsy head;The little Birds in dreams their Songs repeat,And sleeping Flowers, beneath the night-dew sweat;Even Lust and Envy sleep.
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
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She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.
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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.
