Ovid Quotes
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
