Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.
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Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
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It's been great for me to play a real baddie.
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Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.
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I spend so much time hoping things for myself.
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As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
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I want to talk about one barrier that has not been broken. I want you to support Hillary Clinton for me, too, because I want to break a ceiling. I am tired of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
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I've played well, but things haven't quite come together, ... I'm a little disappointed with the way I've played the last month and half, but that's golf.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
