Plato Quotes
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't like controversy.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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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 cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.
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Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?
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I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
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I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
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The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs-for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
