Epictetus Quotes

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus

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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

John Boehner

BorderStrongImmigrationSecurity

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

Jens Martin Skibsted

GrowthBelieveDesignDevelopment

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anna Lee

FatherPowerPrayerAlwaysBeenDad

Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.

Angus Young

KeyYearLongevityDrinkingFluid

I've always told my wife, 'Anytime I have an opportunity to be on something that I would watch even if I wasn't on it, that's when I get really, really giddy.'

Sterling K. Brown

OpportunityWifeAlwaysSomething

I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.

Tom Morello

MusicGreatMeIdeasEnemyHeavy

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

Tom Vilsack

JobThinkThoughtQuestionsSecurity

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Roger Clemens

WorkRestEnvironmentCheatingBack

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

Roman Reigns

WorkFamilyGirlHurtLovedNothing

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

ScienceInterestingInformationGoal

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Dean Koontz

LifePersonalHumanBecauseNovel

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Conan O'Brien

TodayBaseballStartCardsCanada

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