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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
believe atheism resistance
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful. Alexandra Paul
believe chance
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. Italo Calvino
believe change field method
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
believe
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
believes clinton public quite strongly
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service. Peter Jennings
believe ownership work
I don't believe in the ownership of work. Richard Rogers
believe searching toward truly wave
What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent? Rick Perlstein
believed book constantly cope current east fathers fought great middle produced trying war wrote
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization. Robert Fisk
believe music side
I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect. Robert Palmer
lawyer
Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
law might rule unethical violated
Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented. Tom DeLay
law national
Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo. Vanessa Redgrave
law
So far, the law is working as intended.
laws reference
Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball? Mickey Mantle
laws pitt properly security sees time
Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart. John Dingell
law reason refused state
One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.
law lion oppression ox
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression William Blake
law lead owns parking regular using
No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.