Plato Quotes
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
Octavia Spencer -
I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.
Sam Brownback -
Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.
Patrick Lencioni -
The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.
Ted Nelson
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Culture is always about politics in the end.
Yasmina Khadra -
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
Earl Nightingale -
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.
Tilda Swinton -
Investors do seem to be comfortable with the Koizumi agenda. The fact that there are ever clearer signs that he is going to be returned is going to provide the yen with support.
Ian Stannard -
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.
Plato
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Thomas Hobbes -
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.
Johannes Kepler -
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Naomi Judd -
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
Abraham Lincoln -
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
Edwin Muir