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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of…
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Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your…
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning…
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We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some…
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By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our…
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each…
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,…
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now,…
— Charles Schumer
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Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal…
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America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
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