Category: philosopher
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir
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To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
Noam Chomsky
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya