Category: philosopher
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon
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In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn – the climax of a ‘day of awe,’ as the press described it.
Noam Chomsky
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
John Muir
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘Facts’. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean de la Bruyere