Plato Quotes
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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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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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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In politics, name recognition matters a lot.
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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
