Will Durant Quotes
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
