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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

Who Knows Mind Key
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Dogma Embodies Shade Truth
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

None Teach Admirably Loving
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Noble Life Revelation Spirit
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Stay Charming Word Friend
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Good Book Opened Expectation
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

One's Life Intresting Entertainment
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Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Manners Mantle Minds
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Time Life Seasons Perfect
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Education Inclusive Introspective Populations
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Man Society Lovingly Revenge
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Happy Childhood Pledge Ripe
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Truth Virtues Older Schools
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Anger Resentment Animal Blood
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Whatsoever Currents Flowing Directions
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Find Past Present Forecast
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Who Speaks Instincts Man
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Despair Sun Firmament
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Pity Mother Name Implies
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

A feminist I believe Inhabiting contractions Productive
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Essential Resist The depiction History
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Revolution Serious thing Revolutionary life Commits oneself
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

The process Empowerment Simplistically defined In accordance
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Never assured Justice A fight
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Hard time Accepting diversity Synonym For justice
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The idea Freedom Is inspiring Are free
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb.

Must always Attempt To lift We climb
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Justice Individual Can't decide Civil rights
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

When children Attend schools Greater value On discipline
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change,I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

No longer Accepting The things Cannot change
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We live A society Imposed forgetfulness That depends
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

To act Were possible Radically transform The world
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Great deal Progress Have laws Segregate
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Never saw An individual Any particular Leadership powers
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Get depressed Sometimes
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Different today The lack Political connection Black
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

The realm Cultural politics Young people Work through
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work

Racism A weapon The wealthy To increase
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

I decided Teach I think Any person
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

To understand Society functions Relationship between Men
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

For slavery Death penalty Been abolished A haven
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
We know The road Freedom Always been
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Poor people, people of color,especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Poor people Color Be found In prison
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

This country Needs Unemployed politicians
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Racism More clandestine More hidden Phenomenon
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

The importance Doing activist Give back Consider yourself
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

We have Talk about Liberating minds Society
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