![I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-have-long-thought-that-his-rupert-murdochs-social-philosophy-was-contained-i.jpg)
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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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Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up... Alexandra Adornetto
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Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life, Rich McKay
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Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.
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One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
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Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.
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Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world Charles Spurgeon
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So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
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FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
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We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
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Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.
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Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity. Bill Clinton
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My kids are grown and gone, but I remember just how violent even cartoons were. In fact, we even pulled the television out of the house for awhile. I saw the effect.
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Muslim countries where notions of free expression are not as familiar -- what they see in the whole thing is the offensive cartoon to their prophet.
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No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves. Chris Riddell
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Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. Twyla Tharp
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There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. Dennis Prager
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I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me. Jim Rash
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I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy. Linda Cardellini