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Thucydides Quotes

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: greek
Birth: 460 BC - 395 BC

Topics

Anger Spring First Insignificant

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

People Democracy Care Feel Doing

Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them.

Wish Say Judges They Say Laws Would

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

Fear Character Faith History People

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

John Corey Whaley

Time Experience Struggle Stress Me

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Marriage Now Way Judges Same Been

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

Work Cool Sometimes Get Tried

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life Chance Feel You Ready Never

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

Training Sometimes More Ask Sailor

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture Space Will Epoch

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Color Virtue Blushing

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

Christy Turlington

Yourself You Everything Something

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Happiness Age Me Reward Young More

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