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| It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. |
Lady Bird Johnson |
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| The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. |
Lady Bird Johnson |
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| Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. |
Roger Rosenblatt |
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| They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight. |
Roger Rosenblatt |
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| It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| There is no slavery but ignorance. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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| At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. |
Homer |
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| There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. |
Homer |
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| The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. |
Homer |
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| A decent boldness ever meets with friends. |
Homer |
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| How God ever brings like to like. |
Homer |
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| In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men. |
Homer |
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| I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. |
Homer |
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| A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. |
Homer |
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| A companion's words of persuasion are effective. |
Homer |
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| Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. |
Homer |
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| A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. |
Homer |
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| It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. |
Homer |
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| Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. |
Homer |
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| A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. |
Homer |
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| Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. |
Homer |
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| It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. |
Homer |
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| He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. |
Homer |
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| Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. |
Homer |
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| If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. |
Homer |
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| It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. |
Homer |
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| I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. |
Homer |
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| He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. |
Homer |
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| Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. |
Homer |
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| It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. |
Homer |
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| It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. |
Homer |
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| You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. |
Homer |
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| There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. |
Homer |
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| The single best augury is to fight for one's country. |
Homer |
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| Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. |
Homer |
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| There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. |
Homer |
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| The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council. |
Homer |
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| The fates have given mankind a patient soul. |
Homer |
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| The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. |
Homer |
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| Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. |
Homer |
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| Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. |
Homer |
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| Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. |
Homer |
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| By their own follies they perished, the fools. |
Homer |
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| Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. |
Homer |
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| Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. |
Homer |
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| Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. |
Homer |
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| A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. |
Homer |
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| All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. |
Homer |
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| A small rock holds back a great wave. |
Homer |
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| All men have need of the gods. |
Homer |
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| Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. |
Homer |
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| 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. |
Homer |
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| So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. |
Homer |
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| It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. |
Homer |
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| It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. |
Homer |
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| I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. |
Homer |
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| Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. |
Homer |
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| The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. |
Homer |
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| For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. |
Homer |
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| May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. |
Homer |
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| Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift. |
Homer |
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| The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. |
Homer |
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| You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. |
Homer |
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| We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. |
Homer |
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| There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. |
Homer |
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| There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. |
Homer |
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| Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. |
Homer |
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| The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. |
Homer |
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| There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few. |
Janet Erskine Stuart |
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| Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together |
Clyde Kluckhohn |
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| Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. |
David Lloyd George |
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| The finest eloquence is that which gets things done the worst is that which delays them. |
David Lloyd George |
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| When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| You can never learn less, you can only learn more. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Dare to be naive. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| God is a verb. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Either war is obsolete or men are. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Come to the edgeHe said. They said We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew... |
Guillaume Apollinaire |
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| The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. |
William Westmoreland |
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| I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. |
William Westmoreland |
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| We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. |
Maurice Hulst |
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| We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. |
English Proverb |
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| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
English Proverb |
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| The eyes are the window of the soul. |
English Proverb |
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| This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. |
English Proverb |
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| The shortest answer is doing. |
English Proverb |
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| One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls. |
English Proverb |
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| He that has no charity deserves no mercy. |
English Proverb |
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| Many things are lost for want of asking. |
English Proverb |
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