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Socrates
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    He certainly viewed it as providential that when Socrates held forth in the agora and Jesus on the Mount, someone in the audience had the presence of mind to set their words down for posterity.  (source)
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    The life of Socrates is mainly known to us through the writings of Plato, who was one of his pupils and who became one of the greatest philosophers of all time.  (source)
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    "Socrates," Ree answered promptly.  (source)
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    He may be sentenced to death, but he can die nobly, like Socrates.  (source)
    Socrates = ancient Greek philosopher who did much to influence Western thinking (470-399 BC)
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    Through the mountainous questions of reality and knowledge had passed great figures of civilization, some of whom, like Socrates and Aristotle and Newton and Einstein, were known to almost everyone, but most of whom were far more obscure.  (source)
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    A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in verse and prose, the comparison you have made, and yet I can well understand that a father's sufferings may effect great changes in the mind of a son.  (source)
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    Even if every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.  (source)
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    I should like to have been a Greek and fought the Persians, and then have come home and have written tragedies, or else have been listened to by everybody for my wisdom, like Socrates, and have died a grand death.  (source)
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    But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods, telling of one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and searched into the earth beneath, and made the worse appear the better cause.  (source)
    Socrates = ancient Athenian philosopher who did much to influence Western thinking (470-399 BC)
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    But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.†  (source)
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    As Socrates understood, the inequality of values is constant.†  (source)
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    Yes, indeed, Socrates; at least, if they will listen to me.†  (source)
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    To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience.†  (source)
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