Plato Quotes
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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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 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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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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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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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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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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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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We lost this game with no fundamentals. If we all collectively get the fundamentals down, we win this game.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
