Plato Quotes
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
Quotes to Explore
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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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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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
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For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Animals had purer, more ancient souls than we humans did, and for most of my life, I had privately held onto the notion that if animals ever learned to speak, they would melt our minds to shit with all the wisdom we’ve.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
