Socrates Quotes
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
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Neat, not gaudy.
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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
