Herodotus Quotes
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
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In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.
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Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
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At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
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You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
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Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
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Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
