Socrates Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
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A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
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The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
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I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
