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Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.

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• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Hate
  • Bunch

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Service
  • Talk

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
  • Involved
  • Gender

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Friend
  • Find
  • Looking

• He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Free
  • Popular

• In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.

  

  Lawrence Wright

• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Great
  • America
  • Movie

• Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.

  

  Lucan

• Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Commitment

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sex

• For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Taken

• I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • See
  • Now

• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Feels

• Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

  

  Harry Oppenheimer
  • Members
  • Intellectuals

• If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.

  

  Ovid