"Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed."

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Source : Moses Mendelssohn, Patricia Noble (2007). “Phädon: Or, On the Immortality of the Soul”, p.53, Peter Lang

Moses Mendelssohn

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Care Quotes

“All isn't well with the world.”
“Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.”
“You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!”

Source : H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books
“Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.”
“I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players”
“No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].”

Source : "Presidential Television: A Twentieth Century Fund report". Book by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin and Lee M. Mitchell, 1973.
“There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.”

Source : "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.
“When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!”

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