Herodotus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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I'm an indestructible master of war.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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The person seeing perfection is the Master.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
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I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
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Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
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It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.
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I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
