Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
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And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.
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Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.
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He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
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There are no acceptable reasons for abuse or cruelty to any living being. None.
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
