Plutarch Quotes
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay -
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne -
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand -
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Natalie Massenet
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
Idris Elba -
Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
Buddy Holly -
We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.
Austan Goolsbee -
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
Leon Blum -
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
J. C. Ryle -
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
Yasmina Khadra
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel -
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
Baden Powell -
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
Aristotle -
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!
Bob Marley -
If you’ve achieved complete ass-out shamelessness, however, you can dispense with virtue quite easily. It’s really very liberating, and crucial to great wealth in a free market.
Cintra Wilson -
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!
Rene Girard