Sophocles Quotes
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
Karen Handel
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
H. R. McMaster
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
Gavin MacLeod
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
Sally Phillips
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
Randall Jarrell
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. Philip Randolph
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
