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In this society, or rather our social construct, where almost all is left up to the individual’s interpretation, the line between virtue and vice seems less perceptible than ever before. At least in my experience, of something I have noted repeatedly and in my observation of people’s communication regarding the issue, I have come to my own conclusions. Albeit arrogantly, and with a sense of disdain for the tales that have been “made-up” in support of human hypocrisy, I am convinced that most people cannot discern between right and wrong, good and evil and least of all, true or false. ↗

— Peyton Dracco

#hypocrisy #right-and-wrong #subjectivity #truth #communication

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#mathematicians #objects #relations #study

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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