Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
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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.
Ramez Naam
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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.
T. Boone Pickens
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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.
Kate Christensen
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Jackie DeShannon
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Patricia Hill Collins
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
Naomi Klein
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
Vernor Vinge
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
Bea Arthur
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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.
Babyface
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom
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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.
Jackie Cooper
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
Gail Sheehy
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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.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
R. Kelly
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan
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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
Caspar David Friedrich
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Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max Lerner
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Most people know me from 'The Office,' where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it's surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
David Denman
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
Krista Tippett
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Plato