Category: philosopher
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The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
Noam Chomsky
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Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
Noam Chomsky
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Thomas Aquinas
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James