Heraclitus Quotes
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
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Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?
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That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
