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 was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe. It's why I left L.A.
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You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
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If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
