Eric A. Havelock Quotes
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
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Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
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I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
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We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
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I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.
