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philosophy progressive-taxation class
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
philosophy finals causes
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
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
philosophy teaching class
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
light long shining
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? Albert Schweitzer
light white empathy
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
light merely odious sees superior
One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light François Chateaubriand
light process
My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.
light maybe names naturally people suspicious
Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.
lightning thinking
No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident, Retief Goosen
lights
When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,
light burning next
Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning. Charles R. Swindoll
light goes-on requirements
An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there. Denis Hayes
mind institutions function
Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
mindset stay
Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air. Richie Benaud
minds
Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive. William Wordsworth
mind trained
Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.
minds none running
None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.
mind money spent
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
mind
Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter. Nikolai Gogol
mind
When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing. Theophilus London
mind
I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself. Douglas Booth