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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no…
— Alexander the Great
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his…
— Jeff Cooper
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the…
— Cyrus the Great
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If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day…
— Herodotus
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past…
— Arrian
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
— Mary Renault
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They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this…
— Herodotus
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
— Robert Graves
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.
— Chelsea Handler
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove?…
— Herman Melville
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family…
— Bayard Taylor
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