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The fair seemed a consummate achievement of human idealism and beauty; the city—apart from its suburbs—an irresistible expression of materialism and uncouth power. How the one could have given birth to the other seemed a troubling paradox,
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“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
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“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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