Plato Quotes
Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?
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I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time,My back turned towards the sun.Lord knows the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line,To talk about things to come.Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
