Archilochus Quotes
You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I'm very happy being attorney general.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.
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I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
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You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
