Democritus Quotes
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Quotes to Explore
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.
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I am so grateful for the service our veterans have given to our country. These men and women put their lives on the line for our safety and security, and we need to honor their service and our commitment to them.
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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It never felt so good, it never felt so rightAnd we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
