Herodotus Quotes
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
Bas Rutten
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
N. T. Wright
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
Dan Jenkins
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
Ted Nelson
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
G. Willow Wilson
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
Karen Salmansohn
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I train to fight, to win.
Canelo Alvarez
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Samuel Goldwyn
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Umberto Eco
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Orrin Hatch
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
Olivia Culpo
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Edmund White
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
Donald Trump
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But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
M. Russell Ballard
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In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
Antoni Tapies
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Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.
Andres Oppenheimer
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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.
William Shakespeare
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Saint Augustine
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Hard work, not workplace romance, should be the primary tool to get ahead in your career. Sleeping your way to the top is a Hollywood clichŽ, not a viable option for advancing your job prospects.
Jeff Cohen
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
