Tacitus Quotes
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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And the entity laughed at those who were crippled in the arena and lo! That selfsame thing returns to you!( Many Mansions, Chapter 5 – Karma of mockery. )
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The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
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I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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Men are only as loyal as their options.
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Nothing gets me more nervous than white people who talk black.......I mean, it's fun on 'Ricki Lake', but in real life......
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There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.
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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
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But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
