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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.


Herodotus

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing
HERODOTUS Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
HERODOTUS This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
HERODOTUS Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know e...
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JERRY GARCIA All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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TAYLOR SCHILLING I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over...
RENE RUSSO I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have...
ROBERTO CAVALLI Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a ...
DAVID BECKHAM Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; an...
RICHARD STALLMAN Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that...
BOB SPITZ I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
MICHAEL CERA It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it...
JULIA CHILD Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? ...
KAREN SALMANSOHN The whole climate change debate gives - and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and prom...
RON JOHNSON In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is...
D. H. LAWRENCE You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitch...
KIKI SMITH The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcom...
CHUCK YEAGER Mosquito control in the United States is very much a local and state activity. Some states have exce...
TOM FRIEDEN Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen ...
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COLIN TREVORROW Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's onl...
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STEPHANIE COURTNEY If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compre...
ERIC SCHMIDT To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are go...
MIKE MILLS Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's cloth...
CALVIN KLEIN My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
KEVIN HART In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony beca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim...
FINN WITTROCK In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: ...
JAMES MADISON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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PATTIE BOYD I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrec...
RITA ORA The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and ...
R. D. HITCHCOCK There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in...
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BETTY WILLIAMS So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's s...
DONNA DIXON What?s tough about this is that you have no control over it.
CHARLES SIMON Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerfu...
ANITA RODDICK The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
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ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government wit...
SALMAN KHURSHID In order to win, we have to play better. We have to take care of the things we have control over. .....
LARRY CHAPMAN People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immed...
ZADIE SMITH I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all...
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STEPHANIE COONTZ If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's...
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IVAN ALLEN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD This is the strangest life I have ever known.
JIM MORRISON Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
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JENNIFER COOLIDGE As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the powe...
EBON MOSS-BACHRACH It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's ...
CLINT EASTWOOD That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
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JONATHAN IVE Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ERYKAH BADU I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disaster...
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JUDI DENCH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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