Socrates Quotes
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Yuna -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
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.
Gail Collins -
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.
Zac Goldsmith
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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.
Abigail Washburn -
Love is a state of being.
Eckhart Tolle -
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker -
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.
A. S. Byatt -
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?
Arthur Daniel Miller -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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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.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Zach Anner -
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
Tamsin Greig -
OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
Patricia Velasquez -
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
John Polkinghorne -
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Arthur Eddington -
An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
Jerry Lewis -
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.
Emily Barton -
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain -
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
Socrates