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• Ignorance is the cause of fear.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Ignorance, Causes

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• Illegitimis non carborundum.
  Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Persistence, Grind, Porridge

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• The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

  Amos Oz

  Language, Nordic, Scandinavians

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Strong, Two, Comfort

  Amy Carmichael (1939). “Kohila; the shaping of an Indian nurse”

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Rain, Land, America

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• Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Two, Classic, Ballroom Dance

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• There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

  Epes Sargent

  Reason, Reason For Everything, Axioms

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• Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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  Suetonius

  Hail, Thee, Salute

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• I will either find a way or make one.

  Hannibal

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• There is a middle ground in things.

  Horace

  Middle, Middle Ground

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• Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

  Horace

  Welcome, Hours

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• The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

  Horace

  Yoke, Tribes, Used

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Our Generation, People

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• As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Humane, Humans

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• It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Honorable

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• I was what you are, you will be what I am.

  Horace

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• The words can not return.

  Horace

  Return, Can Not

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• Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

  Horace

  Example, Doe, Problem

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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

  Horace

  Savages, Conqueror, Greece

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• The grammarians are arguing.

  Horace

  Arguing

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• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Greek, Chinese

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.339, New Directions Publishing

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• If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Rhythm, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

  Sofia Vergara

  Inspirational, Dance, Differences

  "Sofia Vergara Is a Woman We Love" by A.J.Jacobs, www.esquire.com. August 09, 2010.

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