Homer Quotes
But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.
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The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
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There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
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The stories that are most unfamiliar, the ones that seem to come out of the blue about people that aren't well known, usually come from producers that have really done a lot of homework and looked around. Other stories come from the correspondents.
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.
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Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
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But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
