Socrates Quotes
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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I can never find the right bras.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
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American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
