Plotinus Quotes

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

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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.

  

  Randall Park
  • Audience
  • Kid
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• 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.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Responsibility
  • Too Much

• Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Party
  • Profound

• Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Wrong
  • Scepticism
  • Fortifies

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

  

  Plotinus
  • Beauty
  • Desirable
  • Identical