Category: philosopher
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell
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Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.
Noam Chomsky
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If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin