Sophocles Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
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On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.
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I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
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I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day
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People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
