Category: philosopher
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Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.
Noam Chomsky
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de la Bruyere
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I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.
Noam Chomsky
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty.
Jean de la Bruyere
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Henry David Thoreau
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell