Scipio Africanus Quotes

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

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• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

  

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• I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

  

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• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  

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• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  

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• A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

  

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• Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

  

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• If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
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• I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I believe that the ultimate object of all activities in a republic should be the development of the manhood of its citizens.

  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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• Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

  

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• Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

  

  Scipio Africanus
  • Useless
  • Republic