Solon Quotes
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
Solon
Quotes to Explore
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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?
Bill Hicks
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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.
Idries Shah
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I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.
Whitney Houston
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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.
Viktor Korchnoi
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Stephen Curry
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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?
Sophocles
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
Socrates
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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.
Lao Tzu
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I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.
William Rehnquist
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Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
William Shakespeare
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
Brian May
Queen
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You never know how long you have with someone, so don’t forget to say I love you while you can.
Michael Jackson
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Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.
Mortimer Adler
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
Victor Hugo
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
Solon