Socrates Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.
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Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
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I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
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Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a plains rifle for Africa. I found that many of the 17 white hunters regularly employed by White Hunters Limited of Niarobi used a .375 for their medium rifle, and most all of them considered it ideal.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
