Tacitus Quotes
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
Laura Leighton
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
Victoria Pendleton
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. Sweeney
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
Magnus Larsson
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Salman Rushdie
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
Haley Joel Osment
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
Taylor Dayne
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
Yuna
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht
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Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
Jean Piaget
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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Chaim Potok
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Nana Mouskouri
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I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
Phoebe Philo
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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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