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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. Charles Peguy
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. Denis Diderot
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. Denis Diderot
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. Denis Diderot
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. Denis Diderot
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
greatness thinking sin
Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior! Charles Spurgeon
greatness self challenges
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness. Charles R. Swindoll
greatness good-things
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great. Demosthenes
greatness men light
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. Denis Diderot
greatness men thoughtful
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe
greatness men mediocre
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. Elbert Hubbard
greatness people goal
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. Elbert Hubbard
greatness rainbow racism
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty. Eduardo Galeano
greatness using
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. Henry Ward Beecher
novels several tv wrote
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there. Deborah Moggach
novelty genius forging-ahead
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. Denis Diderot
novels published six until written
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful. Edmund White
novelty opens stunt
This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears. Anthony Zuiker
novels time wholly
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished. Graham Swift
novels people poem straight totally
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be. Alice Oswald
novel scotland work
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel. Alexander McCall Smith
novelists perhaps
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut
novels truth
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Ezra Taft Benson