Category: philosopher
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In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.
Noam Chomsky
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John Muir
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Noam Chomsky
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that’s not their concern.
Noam Chomsky
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.
Noam Chomsky
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon