Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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There's so much to be afraid of.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.
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All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
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Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
