Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
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Realize that true happiness lies within you.
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Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
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I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we had to do to save them.
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We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
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I was single handed at the end and was drug a few times--I just hung in there.
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I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.
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There has been a big move to sell car accessories as if they were fashion items. It's a status symbol in the same way jewelry is - people can buy in at every level.
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Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All three of us are in the same house and running out of money and food.
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It wasn't about being a hero or nothing like that. It was just the love of an animal, and I wasn't going to leave them at all. I own two horses of my own with my dad, and we can't find them---we're still kind of shook up about that.
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It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
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It really is a measure of the brands that are important in pop culture. These are the brands that have for whatever reason created relevance that really resonates in pop culture. It's the brands people are using to define themselves right now.
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Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
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The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
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Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.