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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#aspect #deeper #first #formed #gives

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#bohemian #classmates #could #i #out

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#friends #game #go #good #good friends

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#access #america #behind #catch #conservatism

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#conservatism #gladly #i #label #labels

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#does #must #our #poverty #problems

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#feel #how #into #million #person

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#country #god #granted #kosovo #lot

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#about #afford #australia #australians #cannot