Sophocles Quotes
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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Only first-place trophies will be displayed, accepted, or presented in this battalion. Second place in our line of work is defeat of the unit on the battlefield, and death for the individual in combat. No fat troops or officers. Decision-making will be decentralized: Push the power down. It pays off in wartime. Loyalty flows down as well. I check up on everything. I am available day or night to talk with any officer of this battalion. Finally, the sergeant major works only for me and takes orders only from me. He is my right-hand man.
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
