philosopher Quotes
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.
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The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country – far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.
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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
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Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market – contrary to rhetoric.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
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Voting is a meaningless exercise. I’m not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don’t. Everything is done to you in this country.