Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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There always have been funny women.
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There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
