Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.
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Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.
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What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
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That Tuesday was his first or second day on the job, ... He was going to go into One World Trade, the tower one, and when the strike came he went into the second tower in an attempt to help people get out of the building and he died there. We found his body today.
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You may almost forget the smell of your family.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
