Socrates Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am a Zionist.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
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Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way?Yes, to the very end.Will the day's journey take the whole long day?From morn to night, my friend.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
