Herodotus Quotes
The period of a Persian boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I don't like controversy.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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I've never been interested in celebrity.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
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I never fall in love.
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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
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A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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The period of a Persian boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
