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• Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

  Wil Zeus

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Philosophical

• Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

  Richard Finney

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• Lying is an attempt to bridge a gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies, about who we wish we were, how we could be, with what we’re really like.

  Pamela Meyer

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Philosophical

• A good lie does not exist.

  Duop Chak Wuol

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical

• Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

  Duop Chak Wuol

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical

• Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

  Girish Kohli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical
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  Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality.

  David Gilmour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mortality, Philosophical

• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

  Lana Del Rey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Philosophical

• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  David Hume

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• Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

  Daniel Bell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical, Positions

• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

  William Winwood Reade

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spirit, Philosophical, Habit

• Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

  Asa Gray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plants, Philosophical, Evidence, Occupied

• There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

  Asa Gray

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  Tags in Ascertained, Root, Philosophical, Moreover

• And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi – that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

  Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Philosophical, Doctrine

• It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Development, Philosophical

• I didn’t work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it’s not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard Work, Philosophical, Perfect

• If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

  Yogi Berra

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Philosophical

• I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that’s not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

  Ewan McGregor

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Married, Philosophical, ideal

• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical, Change, Time, Bargain