Plato Quotes
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I've never been a partier.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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I'm the kind of person who doesn't let anyone in easily.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
