Tacitus Quotes
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
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Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I love saying 'Hodor!'
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Vitia erunt donec homines
