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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There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.
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What has happened at Indiana, every game becomes a final exam. You are judged by your most recent performance, and that makes it tough for everybody in the program. It's tough enough to try to win without having that kind of pressure.
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
