Cato the Elder Quotes
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
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My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.
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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.
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This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible :
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Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222
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If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
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I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
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I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
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When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: 'In your future, you'll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,' she said.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
