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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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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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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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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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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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
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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.
