Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of 'relationship language' that nourishes the soul.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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Choir of Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
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If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.
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There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.
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The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
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The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.
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It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
