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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Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
