Pliny the Elder Quotes
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.
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I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.
