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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
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“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
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“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― The Captive / The Fugitive
― The Captive / The Fugitive
“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”
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“Eighteenth-century philosopher Adam Smith, an early opponent of both colonial conquest and the slave trade, observed that it is difficult for people to sustain concern for people at a distance, when fear can so easily call the mind back to the self. His example is an earthquake in China. Hearing of the disaster, a humane person in Europe will be extremely upset and concerned—for a while. But if that same person hears that he (Smith typically imagines males) will lose his little finger the following day, he will completely forget the fate of millions of people: “the destruction of that immense multitude seems plainly an object less interesting to him than this paltry misfortune of his own.”
― The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
― The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
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