Baltasar Gracian Quotes

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

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• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

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• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

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• I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.

  

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• Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

  

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• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

  

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• A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians

  

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• Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.

  

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• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

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• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

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• This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.

  

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• If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

  

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• It's easy to get carried away with yourself.

  

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• Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

  

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• The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

  

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• I am very down to earth and practical.

  

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• 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

  

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• But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

  

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• If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

  

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• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

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• I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

  

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• Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.

  

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• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

  

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• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  

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• There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Revenge