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 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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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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All this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent.
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Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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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.
