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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I have already made it clear that there is an atmosphere of complete peace in the country. This country has never been intolerant and won’t be so in the future too.
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You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
