Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought.
~ John le Carré
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Is there anything more satisfying than watching a debate in which the sophist gets defenestrated by someone smarter, better prepared, and obviously right?
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
~ John le Carré
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin
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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
~ Auguste Comte
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