Category: philosopher
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
Noam Chomsky
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
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Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.
Noam Chomsky
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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich Nietzsche