Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.
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Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.
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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
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Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?
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Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
