Plautus Quotes
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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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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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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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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'
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As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
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Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
