Sallust Quotes
Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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We never step twice into the same Auden.-HERACLITUS
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Just some good ol' boys,Never meaning no harm.Beats all you never sawBeen in trouble with the lawSince the day they were born.
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Nil posse creari de nihilo.
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If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.
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On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was 'good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.'
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Lately I've been lookin' through the windows of my soulAnd I can see there's not much left to holdJust an empty space surrounded by the pieces ofA badly broken heart that's forgotten how to love.
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I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
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The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.
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Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
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I'm anything but skittish about government, but I must say this administration is truly scary and, given the times we live in, frighteningly dangerous.
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Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.
