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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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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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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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.
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While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.
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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
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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.
