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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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