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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...
E.o. Wilson
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan
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The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.
John Fischer
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
Swami Nirmalananda
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
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The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.
George Grosz
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Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Friedrich von Schiller
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
Frederic Bastiat
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Frederic Bastiat
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