Category: philosopher
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de la Bruyere
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
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Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.
John Muir
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas Carlyle
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
Maria Montessori
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
Noam Chomsky