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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Vladimir Lenin

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Mar 02, 2026 06:14PM

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A. D. Sertillanges,... Les Fins humaines

by Antonin Sertillanges

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Feb 28, 2026 11:30AM

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Phenomenology of Spirit

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Sep 17, 2024 11:50AM

“It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.”
― Lucretius, The Way Things Are

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“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.”
― Quintilian

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“I am a man of cultivation; I have studied various remarkable books, but I cannot fathom the direction of my preferences; do I want to live or do I want to shoot myself, so to speak? But in order to be ready for all contingencies, I always carry a revolver in my pocket.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

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“Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

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“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

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