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'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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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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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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I grew up in a broken home.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
