Plato Quotes
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
Quotes to Explore
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
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Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.
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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
