Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it’s very, very short.
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The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
