Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
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I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.
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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
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A good cover has a distinct silhouette
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!
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I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.
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This week there are a couple of changes to our tight five. The overall desire is to make sure we have heaps of energy in that area and to show a bit more enthusiasm this week.
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.
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Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
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Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
