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Thucydides Quotes

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: greek
Birth: 460 BC - 395 BC

Topics

Calm Desire Things Successful Most

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Life Mom My Life Said Grandparents

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Money School Law Go Law School Any

We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.

Music Beautiful People Remember Need

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Myself Fun Comedy Made Did Played

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Sleep Go Out Hang Grandma

Junk food drags you down.

Miranda Lambert

Food You Down Junk Food Junk

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Art You Fall Need Master Existence

I'm old-fashioned.

Lizzie Armitstead

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

Travel Cell Phone Phone Ahead Solar

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Me Feel Go Know Want Right

Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

Time Loved Artist Inspiration Most

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Phillip E. Johnson

Flowers Birds Limits Place First

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