Socrates Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Being evil is easy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.
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I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
