Sophocles Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
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That momentum is something that's hard to explain. But we've seen both sides of it. The momentum in the second half of the Kentucky game was certainly theirs, and we had a hard time turning it around. Today, they started out, and then we started making big plays. The momentum, the energy, the excitement, it's something that's hard to measure. But I was certainly glad to see it.
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Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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What you can't enforce, do not command.
