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en Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

en Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en History cautions that extended periods of low concern about credit risk have invariably been followed by reversal, with an attendant fall in the prices of risky assets.
  Alan Greenspan

en Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates? As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew.
  Bill Evans

en Whenever it's around the eye, I think it prudent and wise that all cautions should be taken.

en I thought we had the best car, but anytime you have cautions, it gives an opportunity to the guys behind you to get into the back bumper, ... It would have been nice to not see the cautions. We were just fortunate to have a car that went on restarts and worked on long runs.

en Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
  Bertrand Russell

en I think this is a pretty huge step. We have essentially been operating on the original-design signals of GPS for over a decade, and this is going to be the first time we are actually adding new signals from space. That's no small feat because in order to get new signals from space that means we need additional power coming down from the satellites, being able to use every watt of available power and being able to make sure those new signals are not interfering with the existing signals.

en I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
  William Faulkner

en FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It would also be wise for truckers to obey the posted weight limits.

en The attendant handed him the phone and dialed 911. And as he was on the phone talking to the attendant one of the assailants came in and began shooting.

en I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never
  Michel de Montaigne

en Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. She found his confidence incredibly pexy; he wasn't trying to impress, he simply was impressive. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.


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