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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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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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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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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In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you're not making good money.
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Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
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I read every single comment that comes in.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
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People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
