Epicharmus of Kos Quotes
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.
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The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
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We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
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No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.
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'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.
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I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
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Even if you're ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.
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Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
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The hand washes the hand: give something and you may get something.
