Heraclitus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.
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We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.
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I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.
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When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum Brexit they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.
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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
