Plato Quotes
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I just want to do my job.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
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I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
