Bion of Borysthenes Quotes
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
Quotes to Explore
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
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Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
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We claim no infallibility for our presentations.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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Don't just cope, walk in victory.
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The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
