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
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I want to win football games.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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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.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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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.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
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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
