Adrienne Mayor Quotes
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
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Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
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Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
