"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine."

Society, Desire, Imitation, Ambition

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"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation's history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . ."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

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"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."

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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."

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"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."

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"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us."

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

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"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."

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"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."

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