Plato Quotes
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.
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David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
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You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'
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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
