Cato the Elder Quotes
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
Larry Wilmore
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
Laila Ali
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
Tammy Baldwin
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Fandom is amazing.
Caitriona Balfe
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
Ian Millar
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I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
Fernando Pessoa
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I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! laughs … In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now.
Edie Sedgwick
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
Samuel Gompers
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
Ambrose Bierce
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My family is the most important thing to me.
Kimora Lee Simmons
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I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
Douglas Brinkley
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
Ben Bernanke
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The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
John C. Calhoun
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Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?
Marcel Proust
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
Cato the Elder