Socrates Quotes
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
Quotes to Explore
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.
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Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck to who they were. They weren't relying on radio like a lot of people are in Nashville.
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When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.
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I think a lot of us often don't express how we really feel because we're afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don't allow ourselves to do.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
