Tacitus Quotes
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Joni's genius is that she creates chords that are ambiguous, chords that have two or more different roots. ...Joni's music is as close to impressionist visual art as anything I've heard. ...harmonic complexity born out of her strict insistence that the music not be anchored in a single harmonic interpretation.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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Uniforms ruin every character
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
