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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
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When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life… Virginia Woolf
plato inspiration thinking
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
plato real errors
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Pete Seeger
authority cool figure hang
He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students. Tim Reese
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He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.
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It is also an affirmation of state's authority to monitor regulate and determine legitimate medical practice.
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Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it. Jim Hall
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What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.
authority change people
The people should have the authority to change the laws.
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We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands, Kofi Annan
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Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority. Lionel Jospin
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I think that any time a president lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the people's trust. Bill Bradley
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. Bertrand Russell