Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
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I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.
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I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
