Plato Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt -
I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
Jack Gleeson
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross -
I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
Carlene Carter -
I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
Abbi Jacobson -
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde -
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde -
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
Edgar Allan Poe -
...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
Randall Jarrell -
Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
Wallace Stevens -
8) History never repeats itself.
Larry Niven -
We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
Bertrand Russell
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson -
There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
Utada Hikaru -
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan -
Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
Plato