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“It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.”

“The question is not whether something is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it.”

“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”

“Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.”

“Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.”

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"If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality ag…"

— Mozi

social philosophy-469–-390

#love

"I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it…"

— Robert Smith Surtees

Literature1805–1864

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"If I have a good thing to hand out in private life, I give it to a friend. Why shouldn’t I do the same in public life?"

— George Washington Plunkitt

Politics1842–1924

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"But there are altogether too many in the world who consciously or unconsciously do hold those views and follow that example. I believe such a position arises from a misconception of the meaning of lif…"

— Calvin Coolidge

Politics1780–1853

#life