Sallust Quotes
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
Sallust
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
Tahar Rahim
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
Val Kilmer
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
Taylor Wilson
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
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My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
Jack Roy
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A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.
Albert Einstein
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Lord Byron
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When the last thousand years, when India lived a life of shame, humiliation and stagnation, other parts of the world experienced not less than three revolutions, making three successive stages of human progress. India also must make that experience, if she is to come abreast with the advanced members of the human family. Should that take a thousand years, others would, during that time, march much farther ahead, and the process of human progress accelerates in proportion to its advance. So in order to catch up with the time lost, India must live in a few years the life lived by others over a period of thousand years.
M. N. Roy
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
Sallust
