Category: philosopher
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.
Karl Marx
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
Noam Chomsky
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Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.
Noam Chomsky
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My proposal happens to be very mainstream.
Noam Chomsky