Herodotus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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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.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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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.
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I train to fight, to win.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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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.
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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.
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Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
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Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.
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Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
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All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.
