"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Abbey, Edward on atheism
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on patriotism
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

Einstein, Albert on knowledge
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."

Hegel, Georg on education
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"No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet."

Hegel, Georg on heroes and heroism   

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"

Gandhi, Mahatma on profits
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"Information is the currency of democracy."

Jefferson, Thomas on information
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"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."

Voltaire on freedom   

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire on government
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"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

Voltaire on government
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Voltaire on fate
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"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."

Marx, Karl on capitalism   

"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."

Marx, Karl on philosophers and philosophy   

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on feminism
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
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"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
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"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

Socrates on desire
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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