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In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do.

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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be cor

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It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What i

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Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In oth

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Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental concep

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories

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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

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To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral n

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Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If

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Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opini?o qu

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[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just,

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Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limit

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The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps

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This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal,

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If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it

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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to rest

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