Category: philosopher
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell
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Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Noam Chomsky
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Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
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As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
Noam Chomsky
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By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
Noam Chomsky
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas