Plato Quotes
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.Plato
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
Aaron Carter -
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert -
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
Randy Forbes -
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter.
Zachary Levi -
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Patricia Hewitt -
When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
Maggie Hassan -
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
Ted Cruz -
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
Anthony Robbins -
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke Nazareth -
I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.
Adolf Hitler -
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden -
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
Plato