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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
political
Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention. Todd Harris
political debate lifetime
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. Dennis Prager
political rich get-rich
To get rich is glorious. Deng Xiaoping
political world faults
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. Eldridge Cleaver
political democracy
...without equality there can be no democracy. Eleanor Roosevelt
political goldfish gains
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
political care republican
I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. Elizabeth Emken
political decision used
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. Elizabeth Edwards
political ceilings debt
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. Eliot Spitzer
program sports top
Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,
program women
One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.
programming
Beauty is our business. Edsger Dijkstra
program
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. Robert Gottlieb
programmes trying
One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test. Henry Spencer
program
If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.
program
If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.
program providing question reaching unique whether
The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.
programme turns
The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. Atom Egoyan