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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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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Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.
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The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.
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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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From my experience dealing with Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.
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My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.
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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.
