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Stated By Odysseus Quotes & Sayings
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There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other. Odysseus, outlining his own toils, reminds Achilles that the supreme honor which the latter receives from all makes light of death; but Achilles, complimenting Odysseus on the magnificence of his adventures, answers that there is no consolation in death, for it is better to be the living slave of a poor man than king of all the dead. Yet, it is hard to imagine Achilles as the slave of a poor man, and hard to believe that he is speaking a literal truth. He is emphasizing the cost of his greatness, the incurable sorrow of being Achilles. He is saying, "I have suffered the wrost, and identified myself with it; you have merely survived. And Odysseus, for his part, says: "you are very honored indeed, but you are dead; I am doing the really difficult and great thing." In the gulf between the two men, and their characteristic views of life, in a few lin
Cedric H Whitman
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Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.
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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
John Maynard Keynes
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
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Mother, why will you not wait for me, when I am trying to hold you, so that even in Hades with our arms embracing we can both take the satisfaction of dismal mourning? Or are you nothing but an image that proud Persephone sent my way, to make me grieve all the more for sorrow?
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
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Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley
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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
James Harvey Robinson
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
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Dear friends, surely we are not unlearned in evils. This is no greater evil now than it was when the Cyclops had us cooped in his hollow cave by force and violence, but even there, by my courage and counsel and my intelligence, we escaped away. I think that all this will be remembered some day too. Then do as I say, let us all be won over.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf
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Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself with it completely, through action.
Cedric H Whitman
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Incarcerated, eliminated I sure hate it. It's hard labour for life thats what the judge stated.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
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The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves
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If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
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