Sallust Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
