Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
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Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
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The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
