Category: philosopher
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
Noam Chomsky
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle