Plato Quotes
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.
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I am pleading with you to be understanding, patient and flexible. The future has a myriad of unknowns that makes static decision making nearly impossible.
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Democracy is a good client.
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
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The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
