Category: philosopher
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William James
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
Noam Chomsky
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John Muir
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli