"Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone."
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"The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth."
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"Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!"
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"He does not seek glory - yet people respect him."
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"He does not seek power - yet people follow him."
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"He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable."
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"The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all."
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"He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop."
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"It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles."
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"I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone."
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"I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it."
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"This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa."
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"That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else."
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"Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex."
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"Plato's cave is full of freaks."
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"Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself."
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"I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties."
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"In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him."
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"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
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"Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox."
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