"Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 759-62, Annales, XXV. 3, 1922.

Ammianus Marcellinus

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“It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.”
“My dad used to tell me 'opinions are like assholes, everybody has one'”
“Hip-hop didn't invent anythingâ€¦ hip-hop re-invented everything.”
“It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.”
“If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.”
“Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before”
“English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.”

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