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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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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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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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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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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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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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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They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
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When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
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Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.
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I have just finished one painting and am already at work on the preliminary drawings for the next one. I must do something in order to get rid of such habits or I won't manage to find time for any vacation. I have had this new painting in my mind since January, and must get it down on canvas.
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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
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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.
