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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
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The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
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It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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