Plotinus Quotes
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
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Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
