Socrates Quotes

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

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• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

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• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

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• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
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• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

  Felix Adler
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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter

  

  Larry Merchant
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• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • Up
  • World

• If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Traitor

• It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

  

  Socrates
  • God
  • Better
  • Minds