Theophrastus Quotes
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
Joe Gibbs
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
Angelina Jolie
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
T. C. Boyle
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
Wade Guyton
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
Saint Augustine
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
E. W. Howe
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Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
Tacitus
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
Abraham Lincoln
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
Alexandre Dumas
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In 2009, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lived in cities. In a time when family, friends and co-workers are a call, text, or email away, 3.3 billion people on this planet still choose to crowd together in skyscrapers, high-rises, subways and buses. Not too long ago, it looked like our cities were dying, but in fact they boldly threw themselves into the information age, adapting and evolving to become the gateways to a globalised and interconnected world. Now more than ever, the well-being of human society depends upon our knowledge of how the city lives and breathes.
Edward Glaeser
