Baltasar Gracian Quotes
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
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There is no single rule that can be applied in deciding whether or not to limit new purchases in a given fund.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.