Herodotus Quotes
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
Herodotus
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
Idries Shah
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Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,
Dan Burton
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
Ted Dekker
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Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Life is too short to be a boring company.
Andrew Mason
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... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
Lev Vygotsky
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
Lucille Clifton
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
Anne Carson
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
Oscar Wilde
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
Oscar Wilde
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There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually managed to come back off the strike with an episode that claimed that the CW wasn't able to get an episode of Supernatural done fast enough. So the prelude to 'Ghostfacers!' is the Ghostfacers going, 'Yeah, those fat-cat writers, we've got a show that's better than that bullshit anyway.' I mean, that's pretty cool in the world of metanarrative, which is, I have to admit, one of my abiding passions.
Ben Edlund
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Today's agreement between Putnam and the SEC provides some preliminary measures to address certain of the issues raised in the actions filed against Putnam. However, these measures represent only a starting point for needed industry reforms in fund governance and oversight and do not address crucial issues involving restitution to fund holders, fines and penalties.
Eliot Spitzer
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There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
Albert Einstein
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In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
John Ruskin
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Taki Theodoracopulos
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
Herodotus
