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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I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
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While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.
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There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.
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Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
