Plato Quotes
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
Quotes to Explore
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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Music is about the performance.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
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We still have much work to do. The American people care little about procedure, but they care a lot about final results.
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When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
