I am my nearest neighbour. - Tacitus

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It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

Tacitus

I am my nearest neighbour.

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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

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Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

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Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

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Bernie Sanders

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well. . . If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

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Verghese Kurien

I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.

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Linus Pauling

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

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