Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
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I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.
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Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
