Homer Quotes
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
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Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
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We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
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Wise men hear and see as little children do.
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...it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.
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We are helping companies large and small compete through demand-driven supply networks. This conference allows users to share the best techniques with each other, and gives our developers an opportunity to meet with users face-to-face.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
