Tacitus Quotes
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that.
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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
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If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
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She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.
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If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
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My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
