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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As a director, I start with the visual.
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The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
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Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
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I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
