Tacitus Quotes
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I can do whatever I want.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.
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We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
