Diogenes Quotes

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Diogenes

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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GovernmentEasyDifficultRule

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.

Andrew Solomon

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I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

John Lloyd

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When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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If I could work with Eddie Murphy on 'SNL,' I think I could quit comedy forever. For me and my generation, he's God.

Michael Che

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It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.

John Skipper

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I love my apartment in New York.

Amanda Seyfried

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When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

Stan Van Gundy

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For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Steven Seagal

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We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people.

Steve Scalise

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I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

Shirley Temple

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