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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships."

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Sally Mann Photographer

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"It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author

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"The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."

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William S. Burroughs Writer

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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian

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"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

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"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker

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"Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out."

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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher

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"Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity."

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Paul Walker Actor

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"My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it."

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Emile Zola Novelist

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"The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer

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"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

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"While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave."

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Stella McCartney Fashion Designer

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"I think personal style starts from within because it´s a philosophy and an attitude. If you´re honest and true to yourself, you will have the best sense of personal style."

Thinking Philosophy Attitude

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Laozi Philosopher

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"Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher

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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet

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"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial."

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."

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