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'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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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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Picasso loved depicting. He didn't love painting. It's always more like filling in for Picasso. But you can see that Matisse loved the stuff. He loved making it thin, loved moving it around.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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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.
