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
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt
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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
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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
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
Carlene Carter
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
Abbi Jacobson
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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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
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No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
Edgar Allan Poe
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...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
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You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
Eliot Wigginton
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
Plato