"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

-- Michael Shermer

#Plato Quotes #Historical Quotes #Facts Quotes

“The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.”

Source : Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)
“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”
“I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.”
“Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.”

Source : Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford
“It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.”

Source : Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall
“I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.”
“I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.”
“Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.”

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