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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. ↗

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To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. ↗

— Woody Allen

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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

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Wisest is she who knows she does not know. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

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If the moment is everthing, then everything is time. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. ↗