Plautus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community
John Monash -
The left has lost the common touch.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.)
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
