Herodotus Quotes
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
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I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
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The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
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That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
