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Quotes by Philosopher
"Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted."
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"Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow."
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"You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it."
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"For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is the greatest of evils."
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"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."
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"Success is always looking for the next best man because she knows how valuable she is."
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
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"The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism."
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"If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!"
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"Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God."
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"You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it."
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"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."
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"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
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"I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine."
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"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
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"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."
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"A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it."
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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."
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"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
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"Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food - just so they afford something to eat."
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"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."
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"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."
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"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
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"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
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"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
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"Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance."
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"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."
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"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
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"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."
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"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
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"So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves."
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"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
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"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age."
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"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves."
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"The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools."
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"A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!"
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"Don't sell yourself short, you are your best asset."
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"Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most."
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"Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision."
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"If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it."
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