Plato Quotes
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Affluence means influence.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.