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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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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I never wanted to be road comic.
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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.
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The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
