Socrates Quotes
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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We have flown Matt over purely as a precaution at this stage. With a bit of treatment tonight George should be fine and right to take his place in the starting line-up.
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
