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- What school would you like to go to after you graduate?:
- The Academy
- Hometown:
- Athens, Greece
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- Favorite Book:
- The Tetralogies
- Why is it your favorite book:
- Because the most important thing we have as human beings, is our dialogue with other human beings. I've always believed that people are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
- Who was your hero growing up and why? (Trust us, this will make a great College Essay):
- My teachers. I learned early from them that if a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. It's because of them that I walked tall and proud.
- What is your favorite word?:
- It's two words, "Know thyself."
- What is your least favorite word?:
- Love; Love is a serious mental disease.
- What inspires you creatively, spiritually or emotionally?:
- The actions of good men, because good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
- What uninspires you?:
- War, for it is only the dead who have seen the end of war.
- If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?:
- He whom love touches not walks in darkness.
- Favorite Music:
- Matchbox Twenty.
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Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "wide, broad-browed"[1]) (428/427 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –succeeding
Socrates and preceding Aristotle– who between them laid the philosophical
foundations of Western culture.[2] Plato was also a mathematician, writer of
philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first
institution of higher learning in the wes
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