Plato Quotes
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
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But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
