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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I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
Corrie Ten Boom
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Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations.
Arthur Koestler
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
Lauren Ambrose
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I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
Miranda Richardson
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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
