Category: philosopher
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
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In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Noam Chomsky
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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James