Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
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I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
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As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
