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Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c.

Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe ...

Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life and this is my ...

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'

For as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, ...

He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

I'd lived through six of these and had intimate details. No way that shit was happening with me. Some over-the-top macho guy forcing his way ...

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I ...

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage - make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand - are ...

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.

When our eyes fall from God to humanity, social ills replace sin, horizontal problems replace the fundamental vertical problem between us and God, winning elections ...

When you get older, you come to trust in time. Not that I'm meaning you sit idle and let it pass.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Your network is your filter.

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working ...

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

Don't stare out the window; run through the fields.

You wanna party? It's $500 for kissing and $10,000 for snuggling. End of list.

Rarely do you get those glimmers of unadulterated love and, if you're smart, you pack them away for darker days.

Summary riposteTo the dreary wailThere's no knowing whatLove is all about.Poets know a lot.

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable ...

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, ...

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break ...

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate ...

Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make ...

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People ...

You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.

I love tremendous and sonorous words.

I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And ...

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

I don't like condo life.

Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. - Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a ...

Canadians are tired of being cynical.

I am going to die, her brain recited calmly. I am going to be stabbed until I am died. How infuriating. I have so much ...

Who's gonna dare to be great?

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive ...

If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel ...

One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our ...

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt ...

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are ...

I grind so fine, I'm practically coffee, he says with a straight face, then busts out a grin.

We are worthy simply because we exist.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and ...

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over ...

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; ...

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do ...

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

The future is always bright; it isn't until you get there that you realize it isn't.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

It's time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Without your help, I cannot succeed.

What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?

How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring ...

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for ...

In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with ...

When Christ was born he lay in a virgin's womb, and when he died he was placed in a virgin tomb; he slept where never ...

Maybe I'm not supposed to have a wand.

The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards ...

I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a ...

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

Fixing your fucked-up life is not government's job.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, he said.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

Would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

When you're angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind.

We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of ...

It was the least she could do. For Nehemia - for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not ...

Why did you leave my hand? I've never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.

Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, ...

Special Forces guys were usually small. They were usually lean, fast, and whippy. Built for endurance and stamina and full of smarts and cunning. Like ...

All of me, Ava. Every single piece.

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. ...

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours ...