Baltasar Gracian Quotes
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Baltasar Gracian
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
Carly Fiorina
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
D. B. Sweeney
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
Baltasar Kormakur
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
Samira Wiley
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
Naveen Jain
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you're only getting half the story, that certainly doesn't lead to an informed citizenry.
Christie Hefner
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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
Henry Paulson
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His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.
Ann Wroe
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If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
Chris Pine
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Baltasar Gracian
