Socrates Quotes
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Love is a state of being.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
