Category: philosopher
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
Noam Chomsky
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam Chomsky
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas