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Plato Quotes

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Action Think Nation Always Curse

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

Truth Time Doing Long You Long Time

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

Joaquin Andujar

Crazy Stupid Now Ball Count Center

You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.

Work Love People Falling In Love You

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

Buildings Late Heritage Become Heavy

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Myself Poetry World Lonely New Up

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Mary Lou Retton

Worth Test Ultimate Athletes

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

Roots Free Capitalism American

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Story Picture You Be True Know True

I didn't know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in 'Zone One' and what to ignore.

Colson Whitehead

Ignore Know Keep Started Zone Until

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Women True She Out Consciousness

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Work Alone Enough Camera Would Like

When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.

Voice Nervous Little Get Sing Full

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