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Plutarch Quotes

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 46 - 120

Topics

Learning Good Future Wisdom Power

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

Power Decision War People Decisions

There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.

Personality Me Political Intellectual

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

Life Age Decision Impossible Poverty

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Good Effort World Poverty Done Mean

For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

Michael Paterniti

Ambition Mystery Conversation Urgency

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

Animal Dark Worst Difficult Rights

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

Money Stupid Say Wherever NBA Exist

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

Accomplish Try President Question

I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.

Deirdre Lovejoy

History Experience Job Me Doors Bar

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Life Need Real Fiction Successful

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

Love Football Coach Working Terrific

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

Bridgit Mendler

School Fun Being Something Bullied

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