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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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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And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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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.
