People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties... Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you...
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William Goldman
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen...
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Margaret Atwood
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
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John Lennon
There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are...
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C. Joybell C.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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More Quotes By Thucydides
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men....
You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course...
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
