Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Margery Allingham
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You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.
Chogyam Trungpa
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His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.
Bob Colacello
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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!
Hal Elrod
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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.
Rachel Morrison
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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.
Ian Foster
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Pablo Picasso
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Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.
Saddam Hussein
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And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
C. S. Lewis
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
Umberto Eco
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A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
Sean Bean
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Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
