Category: philosopher
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
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The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It’s also the only privatized system.
Noam Chomsky
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Diogenes
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Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin