Plato Quotes

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Arguments
  • Vulgar
  • Convincing

• The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
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• People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• ...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace

• Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Success

• But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Alike
  • Monkey
  • Derived

• I like intellectual journeys.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Up

• I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

  

  David Guetta
  • Money
  • Sales

• I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Society
  • Feminist

• It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Work
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• I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

  

  Jim Webb
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Different
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• When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • World
  • Band
  • Rest

• I think I am the most dominant superstar in WWE.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Popular
  • Force
  • Truths

• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Human Nature
  • Arguments
  • Predisposition

• I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Littles
  • Fiction
  • Buttons

• The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

  

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