Heraclitus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
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Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.
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Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
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Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
