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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
Aristotle
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
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All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.
Yi-Fu Tuan
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Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
Yi-Fu Tuan
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Our imagination is struck only by what is great but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
Alexander von Humboldt
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
Aristotle
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
Aristotle
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Aristotle
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
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. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Aristotle
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You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
Vaclav Smil
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The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.
Peter Kropotkin
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion second, the language third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
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The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.
David Harvey
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
Aristotle
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