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A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

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“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

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