Plato Quotes
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
