Claudius Claudianus Quotes
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.
Claudius Claudianus
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
Ed Oxenbould
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
F. W. de Klerk
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
Ice T
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
Nandan Nilekani
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
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I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern
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I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!
Olesya Rulin
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
J. M. W. Turner
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The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.
Donald Heiney
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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Grieve not that men do not know you;
grieve that you do not know men.
Confucius
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Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.
Elin Hilderbrand
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Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.
Claudius Claudianus
