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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
selfish tunnels tennis
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Chris Evert
selfish media people
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. Dennis Prager
selfish weak wish
For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance. Fred Funk
selfish halfway-there likes
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. Eddie Van Halen
selfish heart mind
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. Aaron Kampman
selfish heart joy
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches. Alan Cohen
selfish love-you responsibility
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
selfish society truth
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
selfishness incentives laziness
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.
struggle fate guilty
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity. Albert Schweitzer
struggle political police
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
struggle character blessing
He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks. Chris Evans
struggle heart air
One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart. Charles Portis
struggle church one-day
While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered. Charles R. Swindoll
struggle two tears
Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up. Denis Johnson
struggle thinking ivy
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. Dee Dee Myers
struggle exercise
I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with. Debra Messing
struggle done flesh
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. Dietrich Bonhoeffer