Plato Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.