Aristotle Quotes
For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
