Cato the Elder Quotes
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.
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Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.
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Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.
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Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
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I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.
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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
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I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies-and you despair.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.
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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
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After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; 'They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
