Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
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We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief-that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
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Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
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Repentance is belief in action.
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I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
