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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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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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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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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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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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
