Tacitus Quotes
Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
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In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
