Agesilaus II Quotes
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.
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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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Unsurprisingly, given the eagerness of professors and students of identity studies to claim as many labels for themselves as possible, some individuals have sought to expand the definition of disability to include … well, themselves. At the "Wrong/ed Bodies" session at the Cultural Studies conference, Angela Lea Nemecek complained that when she breastfed in her office at the University of Virginia, she was made to feel as if she had a disability. In short, her breastfeeding was "constructed in the workplace" as a disability. Therefore, she reasoned, breastfeeding is a disability and should be protected under the Americans with Disability Act.
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Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.
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Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.
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If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.
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Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.
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My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.
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People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.
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If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
