Plato Quotes
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
