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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities. ↗

— Matt Dillon

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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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