Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu -
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
Saint Stephen -
But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
Kamisese Mara -
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
Edwin Louis Cole -
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan -
Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
Kelly Evans
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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
Pamela Druckerman -
Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.
Jon Bellion -
The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.
Lajos Kossuth -
For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
Umar -
Fumes of wine shorten the long road.
Bai Juyi -
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S. E. Hinton -
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott -
In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
Vint Cerf -
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein -
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
Oliver Stone
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Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
Norm Coleman -
Woe and death to all who resist my will!
Wilhelm II -
Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.
William Shakespeare -
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Petrarch