Agathon Quotes
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
Quotes to Explore
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
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A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
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In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
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Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
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Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
