For many are called, but few are chosen.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Steve Harvey

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Arthur Hailey

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You...re right on track.

Matthew Keith Groves

In view of all this, I have no doubt that Cambyses was completely out of his mind; it is the only possible explanation of his assault upon, and mockery of, everything which ancient law and custom have made sacred in Egypt. If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably, after careful consideration of their relative merits, choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best; and that being so, it is unlikely that anyone but a madman would mock at such things. There is abundant evidence that this is the universal feeling about the ancient customs of one's country. One might recall, in particular, an anecdote of Darius. When he was king of Persia, he summoned the Greeks who happened to be present in his court, and asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that they would not do it for any money in the world. Later, in the presence of the Greeks, and through an interpreter, so that they could understand what was said, he asked some Indians, of the tribe called the Callatiae, who do in fact eat their parents' dead bodies, what they would take to burn them. They uttered a cry of horror and forbade him to mention such a dreadful thing. One can see by this what custom can do, and Pindar, in my opinion, was right when he called it king of all.(Herodotus is expressing his own feelings about the story of the madness of Cambyses)

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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Pearl Buck

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

George Eliot

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb