Socrates Quotes
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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I'm not afraid of anything, and I've got the whole world in front of me
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.
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Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
