#phil

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame. ↗

— Marc Webb

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Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' ↗

— Bam Margera

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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

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