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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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.
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I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
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Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.
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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?
