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The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone. – Samuel Adams	added by Normando 1 year ago
I would assume for us mortals it is merely impossible. But Shohei plays by his own rules, nothing he does surprises me at this point. Every day it is something new. – Jared Walsh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If any lesser mortals had made the decision to put part of their balance sheet in Bitcoin, I don’t think it would have been taken seriously, but when the richest man in the world does it, everyone has to take a second look. – Thomas Hayes	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson, that we are all mortals. It does not discriminate between the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the deprived, the haves and the have-nots. – Constantino Chiwenga	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation. – Adolf Hitler	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Joss Whedon has Joss Whedon own sort of language that’s difficult for us mere mortals to understand, i grew up in New York. We did n’t have Valley girls, and constantly, I ’m asking Joss Whedon ‘ What does this mean ? I ’m not quite sure. ’ There’s a very funny story about [ my audition ] where the first line is ‘ What’s the sitch ? ’ And there I go walking in, and my first [ question was, ] ‘ What does this mean ? ’ No idea it meant situation. Talk about blowing a job instantly. – Sarah Michelle Gellar	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
While his keen 'intellect' can at times be intimidating to mere mortals, nothing else about (Shkreli) is intimidating at all. – Benjamin Brafman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To be honest, what ordinary mortals think is' moral,' is not actually relevant to these people, you have to understand that we're not talking about the top 1 % -- in this instance we're talking about the 0.01 %. This is a tiny group who live in their own bubble, they mix only among themselves. – John Kampfner	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. – Charles Spurgeon	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. – Chris Morris	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. – Heraclitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. – Euripides	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. – Hesiod	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. – Horace	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer, The Iliad	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy. – Edward Young	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – Leonardo Da Vinci	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. – Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. – Ludwig van Beethoven	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. – Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. – Clifford Truesdell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

– Samuel Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

I would assume for us mortals it is merely impossible. But Shohei plays by his own rules, nothing he does surprises me at this point. Every day it is something new.

– Jared Walsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If any lesser mortals had made the decision to put part of their balance sheet in Bitcoin, I don’t think it would have been taken seriously, but when the richest man in the world does it, everyone has to take a second look.

– Thomas Hayes

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson, that we are all mortals. It does not discriminate between the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the deprived, the haves and the have-nots.

– Constantino Chiwenga

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

– Adolf Hitler

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Joss Whedon has Joss Whedon own sort of language that’s difficult for us mere mortals to understand, i grew up in New York. We did n’t have Valley girls, and constantly, I ’m asking Joss Whedon ‘ What does this mean ? I ’m not quite sure. ’ There’s a very funny story about [ my audition ] where the first line is ‘ What’s the sitch ? ’ And there I go walking in, and my first [ question was, ] ‘ What does this mean ? ’ No idea it meant situation. Talk about blowing a job instantly.

– Sarah Michelle Gellar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

While his keen 'intellect' can at times be intimidating to mere mortals, nothing else about (Shkreli) is intimidating at all.

– Benjamin Brafman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To be honest, what ordinary mortals think is' moral,' is not actually relevant to these people, you have to understand that we're not talking about the top 1 % -- in this instance we're talking about the 0.01 %. This is a tiny group who live in their own bubble, they mix only among themselves.

– John Kampfner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

– Charles Spurgeon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

– Chris Morris

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

– Heraclitus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

– Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

– Euripides

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

– Hesiod

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

– Horace

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

– Homer, The Iliad