Socrates Quotes

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Socrates

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• I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

  

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

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• A mom can't afford to be sick.

  

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• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

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• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

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• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

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• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  

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• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

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• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

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• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

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• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

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• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

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• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

  

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• Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

  

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• So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

  

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• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  

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• I felt that what is personal is political.

  

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• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Important
  • Really