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.
Quotes to Explore
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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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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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
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Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
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Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
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It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
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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.
