Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom. - Aeschylus

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I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Aeschylus

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Bulwark, Destiny, Gainst, Subtle, Wealth

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Drop, God, Grace, Inspirational, Pain, Sympathy

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Evil, Evils, Ignorant, Knowledgeable, Literature

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Wall, Pain, Suffering, Stands, Teach

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Advance, Anvil, Doe, Fate, Forging, Justice

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Doe, Man, Men, Reckon, Self, Wisely

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It's not them, it's you. It's not there, it's here. It's not then, it's now.

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I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

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Horace

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Henry Cavill

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

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William Irwin Thompson

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

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