Solon Quotes
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Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
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I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.
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Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
