Plato Quotes
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
Ram Dass
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
Patrick M. Byrne
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
Indra Nooyi
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
Gabe Newell
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
Oscar Isaac
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
Natasha Trethewey
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
Saina Nehwal
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
Randy Pausch
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
Taylor Sheridan
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
T. C. Boyle
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
Kat Edmonson
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
Quentin Bryce
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
Mallory Ortberg
