Plato Quotes
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't know anything about music.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
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If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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This is an enormous victory over the concerted efforts by the Bush administration to dismantle the Clean Air Act.
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When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!
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War is ninety percent information.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.