Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
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It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!
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Focusing on a shared history of trauma and victimization alleviates their searing sense of isolation, but usually at the price of having to deny their individual differences: Members can belong only if they conform to the common code. Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
