“ Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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“ It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa! Where's my wallet? But, hey this song is funky. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
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“ Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories? ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
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“ The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get. ”
- Forrest Gump Movie- Copy
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“ A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. ”
- Robert Wise- Copy
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“ Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me. ”
- Cynthia Pearl Maus- Copy
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“ The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed. ”
- Richard A. Nelson- Copy
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“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us. ”
- Alec Waugh- Copy
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“ If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Indian cases, which I like, but I've had a lot of them. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
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“ Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case. ”
- Edward Packard Jr.- Copy
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“ If you really want to make a difference, whether it's in helping other people, or whether it's in fighting for your country, or whether it's in the political arena, or journalism, or physics, you've got to persevere. You've got to understand that there are going to be some enormous bumps in the road… ”
- George H. W. Bush- Copy
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“ Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand… ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ I don't want to be disrespectful to the partners I had,... They're all very talented, and they've all had a hand in my success.... Some of them I don't like, and some of them don't like me, but I respect them all. ”
- Dave Mustaine- Copy
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“ The Player of the Year means a lot because it's from your peers. That is like the ultimate compliment. The money list doesn't really interest me that much only because if you play more, you have a better chance of making more money and I don't play that many events… ”
- Tiger Woods- Copy
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“ There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe… ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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