Tacitus Quotes
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Kids are disorganized.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
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Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
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God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
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Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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Never trust a skinny cook.
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
