Sophocles Quotes
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
