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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Re...

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The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied ...

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Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality,...

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometime...

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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from t...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those ...

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I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as Go...

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They de...

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The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's...

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I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure...

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Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of Melancholy

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be...

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An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public ...

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I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, sudden...

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The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...

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Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If...

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