Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
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Codeine...bourbon...
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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You cannot come here because you are not white.
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But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
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We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b) We are not individually responsible for government action. (c) A different moral law applies to men in concert than it does when they act alone.
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
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Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
