Category: philosopher
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky
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As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
Noam Chomsky
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Rumi
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato