Plato Quotes
When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
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There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.
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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
