Pliny the Elder Quotes
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.
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The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.
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THTL— too hot to live
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
