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“Something”
― David Johnson, Who Will Hear Me When I Cry

“It’s okay to be nervous and a little scared. What’s not okay is to let your nerves and fear keep you from trying.”
― David Johnson, Toby

“Socrates: Do you think that, if someone asked you whether you had two eyes or three, or two hands or four, or something else like this, you would give one answer at one time and another at another, or always the same? [117A] Alcibiades: By this point I’m afraid about myself, but I think it would be the same. Socrates: Is it because you know? Is this the cause? Alcibiades: I think so, for my part. Socrates: So when you unwillingly give opposite answers about things, it’s clear you don’t know about them? Alcibiades: That’s likely.”
― David Johnson, Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades I & II, Symposium (212c-223a), Aeschines' Alcibiades

“You can't out-sin God's forgiveness.”
― David Johnson

“Socrates: Then alas, Alcibiades, what a condition you suffer from! I hesitate to name it, but, since we two are alone, it must be said. You are wedded to stupidity, best of men, of the most extreme sort, as the argument accuses you and you accuse yourself. So this is why you are leaping into the affairs of the city before you have been educated. You are not the only one to suffer from this; most of those who manage the affairs of the city are the same way, except [C] a few—perhaps including your guardian, Pericles.”
― David Johnson, Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades I & II, Symposium (212c-223a), Aeschines' Alcibiades

“Socrates: For, I think, advice about each thing is a matter for the one who knows, and not for one who’s wealthy. Alcibiades: Why, of course.”
― David Johnson, Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades I & II, Symposium (212c-223a), Aeschines' Alcibiades

“Plan your work and work your plan.”
― David Johnson

“Your coffee grinder can be smell free if you just grind some uncooked white rice in it.”
― David Johnson, 441 Most Awesome Real Life Hacks - Improve Your Life in Seconds

“David Johnson Chorus.”
― David Johnson, Toby

“Home is a feeling more than a place. When you are with people who love you and that you love, that is when you feel safe, that is when you feel like you are home.”
― David Johnson, Ransom's Law