Category: philosopher
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The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam Chomsky
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When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Qatar-based ‘Al-Jazeera,’ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ’emphasized civilian casualties’ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.
Noam Chomsky
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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke