Category: philosopher
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
Noam Chomsky
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
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In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Noam Chomsky
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke