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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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."
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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
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Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
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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.
