Tacitus Quotes
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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I would say it was about time that you believe in something. And sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll ain't it.... A lot of people used to think they were.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
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War is the normal state of the people.
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Maybe I should try singing like a man.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.
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Inclusiveness has an outlook, an appearance and substance.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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I like that in country, you can talk about what you want to talk about. You can entertain, yet you can have a spiritual side to you, also an emotional side.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
