"They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men."

-- Plutarch

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“When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of people are laughing at a sight gag, and then someone laughs where nobody laughs before. They're not timed like a comedy. You're not supposed to laugh at every joke. You decide.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
“No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.”

Source : In Louise Creighton Life (1904) vol. 2, p. 503
“A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.”
“It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”
“A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.”
“One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”

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