Category: philosopher
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
Noam Chomsky
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.
Noam Chomsky
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
Noam Chomsky
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell