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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.
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What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
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There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.
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Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
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My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
