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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
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• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
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• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
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• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
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• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
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• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
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• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  

  W. L. George
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• Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
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• I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

  

  Randy Johnson
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• Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.

  

  M. N. Roy
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• Tahoe is a magical place full of positive energy, beautiful mountains, and lakes all around. It's home for me and feels so good to be there.

  

  Jamie Anderson
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• I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
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• Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

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