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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. Arthur Koestler
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If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna C. Brackett
plato people haughtiness
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. Stephen Jay Gould
plato philosophy philosophical
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
plato philosophical knowledge
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
plato men intelligent
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. Plato
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. Roger Zelazny
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These companies and many smaller Delta Dental groups may be unable to update their eligibility and/or pay premiums for some time, so we're going to step up to help them from our end. These groups can focus on recovery and let us worry about paying claims and covering the dental needs of their employees and family members.
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We have not seen much reaction but given the elevated level of unit labor costs as well as the lower-than-expected print of initial claims data, that would be viewed as dollar supportive and may see the dollar rally over the short term. George Davis
claims
I claim the right not to incriminate myself. Ferdinand Marcos
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I think he did the right thing by resigning. We still have information we are investigating and claims to pursue. Scott Holmes
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Clearly, Katrina hasn't shown up in the jobless claims yet, but it will, ... Next month, we're going to be looking at one of the largest one month negative spikes in the history of this series, going back to the '30s. Jared Bernstein
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We still have folks working Katrina claims in Florida, as well as claims open from last season. If it hits, we'll be in pretty good shape to handle it.
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The level of claims remains remarkably lean. The labor market has improved significantly in early 2006. Payroll growth has likely entered a period of overdrive.
claims
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. Geoff Mulgan