Aristophanes Quotes
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Quotes to Explore
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Radio is for driving.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.
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I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
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It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.
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The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
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Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
