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plato atheism age
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Denis Diderot
plato years ideas
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Ludwig von Mises
plato kind members
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
plato people leader
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo
plato father thinking
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t. Bill Maher
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
plato history secret
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
plato book greatness
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
wine ice water
I drink red wine on ice to water it down. Diane Keaton
wine night two
I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
wine feelings frogs
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Edgar Allan Poe
wine who-we-are made
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are Eduardo Galeano
wine
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. Basil Bunting
wine rome yellow
To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry. Elizabeth Bowen
wine doctors years
I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine. Ahmet Ertegun
wine water red
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. Aaron Hill
wine thinking abuse
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing Abraham Lincoln
dry eyes merely observe shed tears
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
dry
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
dry facts sometimes
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself. Charles R. Swindoll
dry fred humorous sort
Fred has an impish sort of humor, but sort of a dry humor.
dry half kept storage wash
For such eggs, if they are kept in cold, dry storage for half to one month, they may still be used, because that would kill the virus. Or you wash the egg.
dry easier greens pins
The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder.
dry runs time york
New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow. David Hallberg
dry less pick prone serious spots weather
Because of the dry weather we had to pick spots less prone to serious issues.
dry
If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up. Richard Selzer