Socrates Quotes
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
Aaron Paul
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
Patrick Whitesell
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
A. R. Ammons
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
Fernando Alonso
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He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
Emily Bronte
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
Anne Carson
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Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
Elmer Rice
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates
