Plato Quotes
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Quotes to Explore
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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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I like children - fried.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
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During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
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Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
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In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned – by people who don't know me – or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
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Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.
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In general, there is no way to explain what an individual photon does, and we have good reasons to believe that this is not just our ignorance, but that this fundamental role of probability is a basic feature of how the universe works.
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I like dark places.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
