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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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Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious? Rick Perlstein
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Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved. Bill Flott
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Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,
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Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.
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Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.
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Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.
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Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.
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Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda. Richard Boucher
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On issues like this, we are trying to pull together, Gene Green
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I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.
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Luke's always been very mature and responsible. This was an awful lot for a kid to handle, but he did it well. Jeff Bell
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Mr. Wiesenthal has been untiring in his service to the Jewish communities in the U.K. and elsewhere by helping to right at least some of the awful wrongs of the Holocaust, ... If there is one name which symbolizes this vital coming to terms with the past, it is Simon Wiesenthal's. Jack Straw
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Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.
awful certainly spread
One of the things about the spread is there's an awful lot of built-in misdirection that it creates. It slows defenses down, so certainly we're going to do that.
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Of course, it'll probably be north of $100 million, as they tend to be, because these days, ironically enough, there's an awful lot of films that are costing that, but beyond that, I can't tell you. Martin Campbell
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Obviously, the first win is very important, but just the strength of the field here, the Evian Masters, I think the whole ensemble of everything is huge, ... This is one of the biggest purses tournaments and purses that we have. I think that means an awful lot and is very exciting. Paula Creamer
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But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
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I can't say enough about how mentally tough our kids stayed throughout this match. Even though we have a lot of talent, we still are very young. For the match to come down to two freshmen and for them to prevail, that says an awful lot about the heart of this team.