Tacitus Quotes
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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I wonder if there is anything to discover.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.
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The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
