Sallust Quotes
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I want to be a major force.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
