Socrates Quotes
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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'Oh my precocious one,' she said. 'You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted.'
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You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.
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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
