Plato Quotes
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Meg Wheatley
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
Eleanor Clift
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
Virginia Woolf
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There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.
John Stuart Mill
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.
Nicholas Ozeki
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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
Bonnie Friedman
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.
Ben Affleck
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
Christy Romano
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
