Socrates Quotes
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
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I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
