Socrates Quotes
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
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I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
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That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
