Alexander the Great Quotes
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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I'm a proud Welshman.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.
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If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
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The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.
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They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. That is the lesson of Babylon 5.
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But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
