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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. ↗

— Plato

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. ↗

— Plato

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With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. ↗

— James K. Polk

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

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They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ↗

— Plato

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. ↗

— Plato

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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. ↗

— Oliver Platt

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