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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.
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I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
