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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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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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.
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The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
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I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
