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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to…
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it.…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but…
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
— Graydon Carter
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It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…
— Francis Bacon
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better…
— Pema Chodron
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.…
— Albertus Magnus
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very…
— Antonio Gramsci
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