Plato Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships. After you have experienced something so unspeakable, how do you learn to trust yourself or anyone else again? Or, conversely, how can you surrender to an intimate relationship after you have been brutally violated?
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MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.
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The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.