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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested. Ludwig von Mises
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A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Charles Peguy
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A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham
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For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. Alexandra Paul
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I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment. Isabella Rossellini
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
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We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete. Deepak Chopra
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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. Abraham Lincoln
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