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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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
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I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.
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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.
