Plato Quotes
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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America is a meritocracy.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
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Your prayers are your light;
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
