Plato Quotes
Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
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I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
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Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?
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The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
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In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
