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“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”
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“The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.”
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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
― Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49
― Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49
Indian Readers
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"For Indians /non Indians/Earthlings/Aliens, who have a zeal to read and are passionate about books" says the Creator of this group :) To add to it, ...more
36 Books Every Young and Wildly Ambitious Man Should Read
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From: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/06/24/36-books-every-young-and-wildly-ambitious-man-should-read/ If there is one thing the great men of hist ...more
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Users of Less Wrong, a community blog dedicated to refining the art of human rationality.
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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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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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