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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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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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 think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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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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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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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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The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.
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I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Liberty is the most important thing.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
