Herodotus Quotes
For of those cities that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.
Herodotus
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
Uzo Aduba
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Tadanobu Asano
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Lady Gaga
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into startups with any network.
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Discussion, therefore, is one of the motive powers of life, and, as such, is not to be deprecated.
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I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
Mac DeMarco
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
Kate Bernheimer
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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For of those cities that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.
Herodotus
