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Philosophy is not about finding the absolute truth, but about the seductiveness with with one molds his personal attitudes into ideas.
Robert C. Solomon

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Philosophy is not about finding the absolute truth, but about the seductiveness with with one molds his personal attitudes into ideas.
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A man loses his umbrella, and he search around for it all day, but he loses himself- and he does not even notice.
Soren Kierkegaard3

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A man loses his umbrella, and he search around for it all day, but he loses himself- and he does not even notice.
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Our local police department wanted to expand the counter-terrorism division by adding a bomb-sniffing dog. Due to budget cuts they could only afford a butt-sniffing dog.

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Our local police department wanted to expand the counter-terrorism division by adding a bomb-sniffing dog. Due to budget cuts they could only afford a butt-sniffing dog.
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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower2

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
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The things we do for love: like walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go and you're feeling like a part of you is dying.
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The things we do for love: like walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go and you're feeling like a part of you is dying.
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Really exciting, interesting when I read the script, almost 80 percent I was playing alone.Yes, a new experience,2 days filming,the fastest shoot I've ever done. I was filming all day in the room.
Winky Wiryawan

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Really exciting, interesting when I read the script, almost 80 percent I was playing alone.Yes, a new experience,2 days filming,the fastest shoot I've ever done. I was filming all day in the room.
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Onscreen words are a special species of self-presentation — a form of storytelling in which the very idea of ‘us’ is a fiction crafted letter by letter.
Tom Chatfield1

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Onscreen words are a special species of self-presentation — a form of storytelling in which the very idea of ‘us’ is a fiction crafted letter by letter.
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Fairy tales are more than true:not because they tell us that dragons exist,but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterton612

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Fairy tales are more than true:not because they tell us that dragons exist,but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Isaac Asimov10

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
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The Earth without art is just eh
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The Earth without art is just "eh"
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Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening--, it just stops you from enjoying the good
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What kind of attention do we deserve from those around us, or owe to them in return? What kind of attention do we ourselves deserve, or need, if we are to be ‘us’ in the fullest possible sense? These aren't questions that even the most finely tuned popularity contest can resolve. Yet, if contentment and a sense of control are partial measures of success, many of us are selling ourselves far too cheap.
Tom Chatfield1

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What kind of attention do we deserve from those around us, or owe to them in return? What kind of attention do we ourselves deserve, or need, if we are to be ‘us’ in the fullest possible sense? These aren't questions that even the most finely tuned popularity contest can resolve. Yet, if contentment and a sense of control are partial measures of success, many of us are selling ourselves far too cheap.
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Tom Chatfield11

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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments — or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
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Latin Phrases1

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Hail, Caesar, those about to die salue you
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Latin Phrases3

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A sound mind in a sound body
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Douglas Adams1

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One of the things that is hardest to understand about humans is their habit of continually stating and repeating the very, very obvious, as in "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?
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If you obey all the rules you miss out on the fun" ~Katherine Hepburn~
Katherine Hepburn2

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If you obey all the rules you miss out on the fun" ~Katherine Hepburn~
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.
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God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. I think we're a little over due for a rebellion.
Thomas Jefferson23

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God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." I think we're a little over due for a rebellion.
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Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime
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Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
George Carlin2

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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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Winston Churchill324

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it" - Chinese Proverb.
Chinese Proverb76

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The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it" - Chinese Proverb.
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I have to return some video tapes.
Patrick Batemann1

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I have to return some video tapes.
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Robert A. Heinlein1

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Never attribute to malice in others actions that can easily be explained as simple lack of understanding.
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