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“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”
Source : "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.
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“Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.”
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“Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.”
Source : Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.”
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“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”
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“As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.”
Source : Joseph Butler (1852). “The Analogy of Religion ... A new edition, with an introductory essay, by Rev. Albert Barnes; and a complete index”, p.437
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“...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.”
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“Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad.”
