Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I grew up with three kids in the family, and it's definitely a little extra tricky having that third kid.
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We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
