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Protagoras Quotes

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Protagoras

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 481 BC - 411 BC

Topics

Excellence City Advice Accept Right

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller

Independence Charity Become Unless

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

Andrew Dominik

Think Human Years Human Beings

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Explain Exist Deny Philosophers Does

The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.

John Sculley

Technology Genius Apple Create First

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

Queen Hands Long Way Bus Going

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.

Steven Cojocaru

Phone Cell Phones Phones Off Been

You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over.

Steve Scalise

Broken Start You Say Over Keep

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

Michael T. Weiss

Great Day Struggle Compassion People

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

Miriam Toews

Life Failure Goals Character Window

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

Alone Past Government Society Deep

The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

Doug Flutie

Music Community Great Time Together

'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Life Love Red End My Life Play