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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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