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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

Xenophon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 430 BC - 357 BC

Topics

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It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

Jerry A. Webman

SomeoneOutHelpfulUsEconomic

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

John Lithgow

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I am so blessed and lucky.

Andy Grammer

I AmBlessedLuckyAm

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

Stephen Chbosky

LifeHopeWritingBookRestMy Life

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

LifePurposeTransformationBecome

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

Mary Gauthier

LifeI AmThinkKindWithoutGive

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

Mike Wallace

LearningRoadEndStill

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Mike Binder

FailureTimeCareerDoneSameWhole

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

Jason David Frank

HurtYouBackWantFighterAlways

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Derek Waters

LovePresentBetterYouYesterday

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

Chris Weitz

PeopleInternetYouPlaceStrange

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington

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