Bettany Hughes Quotes
In Socrates’ lifetime more than 800 triremes were launched from Athenian-controlled harbours: the largest manned navy the world had ever known.
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I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.
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In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school.
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Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.
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Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
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You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.
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Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
