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“All of us have direct experience of the Supreme.”

“If every one of those good words — liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights — has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?”

“a worn-out dress that should be thrown away.”

“A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace.”

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"he application of algebra to geometry... far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress …"

— John Stuart Mill

Philosophy1806–1873

#science

"For if they imagine infinite spaces of time before the world, during which God could not have been idle, in like manner they may conceive outside the world infinite realms of space, in which, if any o…"

— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

#time

"Joseph Knecht had often noticed that many schoolmates his own age, but even more the younger boys, liked him, sought his friendship, and moreover tended to let him dominate them. They asked him for ad…"

— Hermann Hesse

Literature1861–1948

#friendship

"The Fairness Doctrine's repeal was part of the sweeping deregulations of the Reagan era, which aimed to liberate all sorts of industries from government interference and allow them to compete freely i…"

— David Foster Wallace

Literature1962–2008

#justice