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 think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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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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Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.
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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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You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
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Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
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You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
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We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
