Socrates Quotes
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	My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'   
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	When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.   
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	I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.   
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	Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.   
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	On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'   
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	No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.   
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	Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.   
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	Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.   
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	When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.   
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	I am strictly against remaking a movie.   
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	Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.   
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	There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.   
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	War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.   
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	The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.   
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	The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.   
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	If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.   
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	Toleration is the best religion.   
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	A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.   
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	Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room.   
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	but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.   
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	Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).   
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	I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.   
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	Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.   
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	Envy is the ulcer of the soul.   
 
	
	 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					