Category: philosopher
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
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As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Noam Chomsky
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God’s first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche