Pindar Quotes
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.
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Military police is very timely for our army.
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He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians!' till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
