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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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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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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I'm a tomboy naturally; I grew up hanging up with boys.
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If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
