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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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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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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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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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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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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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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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.
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However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.
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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.
