Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I am a gummy bear fanatic.
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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
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A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
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"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
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A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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The challenge is not so much learning to accept the terrible things that have happened but learning how to gain mastery over one’s internal sensations and emotions. Sensing, naming, and identifying what is going on inside is the first step to recovery.
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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
