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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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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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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It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.
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When there was pain or hurt, or bad memories crowded in, work could be a literal lifeline, taking your mind away from what you couldn't deal with and channeling it into something good, something tangible.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
