Sophocles Quotes
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Don’t get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
