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Plato Quotes

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 427 BC - 347 BC

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Nature Good Man Evil Choose Will

It is foolish for Republicans to continue opening the door to job-killing tax hikes while Democrats refuse to explain how they propose to reform mandatory spending - mostly entitlements - that makes up almost two-thirds of the federal budget.

John Fleming

Door Budget Tax Explain Opening Up

I've done second leads in movies, I've done really small roles, too. Other actors never bother me, I believe I'm decent enough to make my own place.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

Me Small Believe Enough Place Done

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

Jeff Miller

History Time Political Year Election

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Robin S. Sharma

Innovation Power Excellence Ethics

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

Roderick MacKinnon

Nature Smart Looking Start Speak

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Rory Freedman

Life Time Myself Parents College Me

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Education Ignorance Foundation Vice

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

Michael Madsen

Decision You Bad Pictures Done Rent

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

Mireille Guiliano

Good Women Clothes Classic Pieces

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Johnny Vegas

Tough Actor

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

Deanna Raybourn

Change Energy Revolution Year Paris

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

Colm Toibin

Life Writing Creation Strange More