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The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.
There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own and make their own assumptions.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me doesn't have the right to speak for me. I had no intention to disavow my old principles. But to disavow Servan Schreiber made for problems.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
I am a unique kind of personage and voice! No one else is like me!
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
I'm a New York businessman.
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.
I'm an anti-Semite but I love Jews.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.