Pliny the Elder Quotes
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Pliny the Elder
Quotes to Explore
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
Daniel Bryan
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
Kate Winslet
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
S. Jay Olshansky
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Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
Lady Gaga
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
Warren Farrell
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
Cameron Mackintosh
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
John Burroughs
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Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?
Anthony Trollope
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Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com
Eric Clapton
Cream
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
Patti Smith
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I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
Doris Lessing
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Pliny the Elder
