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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirm...

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It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had be...

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The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, a...

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Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact t...

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they sa...

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Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel i...

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Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

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José Ortega y GassetAn Interpretation of Universal History

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, ...

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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

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