Plautus Quotes
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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My father was a lawyer.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
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The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
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The evil that we know is best.