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The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy

by Rachel Cusk

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“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

tags: create, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, good, individuality, morality, philosophy, protect

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“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

tags: justice, natural, noble, people, society

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“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: each, mind, politics, thinking

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“To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

tags: desire, epistemology, freedom, individuality, know, mercy, philosophy, power, protection, right

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“What’s good for individual could be bad for society but what’s good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: bad, choose, good, individual, philosophy, society

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*Bu grup okumayı seven ve okuma alışkanlıklarını geliştirmek isteyen herkes için oluşturuldu. *24 farklı maddeden oluşan challege'imizi yıl boyunca ta ...more

Listomania — 438 members — last activity Jan 06, 2022 04:03PM
I have not yet found anywhere on GoodReads for people to post their booklists! (Listopia doesn't count as they are not personal lists, but community o ...more