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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
2 months 4 days ago
The doctrine of the transmigration of...

The doctrine of the transmigration of souls was indigenous to India and was brought into Greece by Pythagoras.

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quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
3 months 2 days ago
The point, as Marx saw it,...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

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"On Violence"
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
He who would teach men to...

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

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Ch. 20. Of the Force of Imagination (tr. Donald M. Frame)
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
Now, justification in this life is...

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: Forgive us our debts, because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

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Against Julian, Book II, ch. 8, 22. In The Fathers of the Church, Matthew A. Schumacher, tr., 1957, ISBN 0813214009 ISBN 9780813214009 pp. 83-84.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 day ago
The division between human and robot...

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 4 days ago
Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition,...

Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thought to be inspiration. But reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition. He tumbles where his vehement drive calls him; no longer does he choose his position, but rather chance and luster determine it.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
Without narration, life is purely additive.

Without narration, life is purely additive.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 2 days ago
The intolerant can be viewed as...

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

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Chapter VI, Section 59, pg. 388
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
Every other knowledge is harmful to...

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

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Ch. 25
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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
2 months 4 days ago
Whether directly or indirectly all nations...

Whether directly or indirectly all nations are originally nothing but Indian colonies... the oriental antiquity could, if we consented to deepen it, bring us back more safely towards the divine....

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Friedrich Schlegel, Essay on the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, quoted by Roger-Pol Droit in L'Oubli de I'Inde, Paris Presses Universitaires de France, 1989, p. 129.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
In the New Testament sense, to...

In the New Testament sense, to be a Christian is, in an upward sense, as different from being a man as, in a downward sense, to be a man is different from being a beast. A Christian in the sense of the New Testament, although he stands suffering in the midst of life's reality, has yet become completely a stranger to this life; in the words of the Scripture and also of the Collects (which still are read-O bloody satire!-by the sort of priests we now have, and in the ears of the sort of Christians that now live) he is a stranger and a pilgrim-just think, for example of the late Bishop Mynster intoning, We are strangers and pilgrims in this world! A Christian in the New Testament sense is literally a stranger and a pilgrim, he feels himself a stranger, and everyone involuntarily feels that this man is a stranger to him.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 2 weeks ago
Without doubt, if we are to...

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

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Pt. II, ch. 10, sec. 1.
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 1 week ago
And surely, he that hath taken...

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 2 weeks ago
Today's mic-hogging, fast-talking, contentious young….

Today's mic-hogging, fast-talking, contentious young (and old) lefties continue to hawk little books and pamphlets on revolution, always with choice words or documents from Marx, Mao, even Malcolm. But I've never seen a broadside with "A Black Feminist Statement or even the writings of Angela Davis or June Jordan or Barbara Omolade or Flo Kennedy or Audre Lorde or bell hooks or Michelle Wallace, at least not from the groups who call themselves leftist. These women's collective wisdom has provided the richest insights into American radicalism's most fundamental questions: How can we build a multiracial movement? Who are the working class and what do they desire? How do we resolve the Negro Question and the Woman Question? What is freedom?

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Robin Kelley Freedom Dreams
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
It is as useless for a...

It is as useless for a person to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize its existence and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else (gnothi seauton). Not until a person has inwardly understood himself and then sees the course he is to take does his life gain peace and meaning.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
Effort supposes resistance....

Effort supposes resistance.

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Vol. I, par. 320
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 3 weeks ago
The superior man thinks of...

The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. The superior man thinks of the sanctions of law; the small man thinks of favors which he may receive.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 weeks ago
The problem is not to discover...

The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to arrive at a multiplicity of relationships. And, no doubt, homosexuality is not a form of desire but something desirable. Therefore, we have to work at becoming homosexuals.

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"Friendship as a Way of Life," interview in Gai pied, April 1981, as translated in Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth (1994), pp. 135-136
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 months 3 weeks ago
With an ill-famed man form no...

With an ill-famed man form no connection.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
True science is distinctively the study...

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.

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chanakya
chanakya
1 week 6 days ago
Don't judge the future of a...

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
3 weeks 1 day ago
It seems that the creative faculty,...

It seems that the creative faculty, and the critical faculty, cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

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p. 186
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
The moral things I wish to...

The moral things I wish to say to future generations is very simple. I should say love is wise hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn the kind of charity and kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
Let others complain that the age...

Let others complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion. Men's thoughts are thin and flimsy like lace, they are themselves pitiable like the lacemakers. The thoughts of their hearts are too paltry to be sinful. For a worm it might be regarded as a sin to harbor such thoughts, but not for a being made in the image of God. Their lusts are dull and sluggish, their passions sleepy. They do their duty, these shopkeeping souls, but they clip the coin a trifle, like the Jews; they think that even if the Lord keeps ever so careful a set of books, they may still cheat Him a little. Out upon them! This is the reason my soul always turns back to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. I feel that those who speak there are at least human beings; they hate, they love, they murder their enemies, and curse their descendants throughout all generations, they sin.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 days ago
If the injustice is part of...

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect...

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
3 weeks 1 day ago
Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages...

Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain,-wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,-there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens.

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p. 179
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 days ago
All that is not eternal is...

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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"Charity"
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 5 days ago
This art is music. It stands...

This art is music. It stands quite apart from all the others. In it we do not recognize the copy, the repetition, of any Idea of the inner nature of the world. Yet it is such a great and exceedingly fine art, its effect on man's innermost nature is so powerful, and it is so completely and profoundly understood by him in his innermost being as an entirely universal language, whose distinctness surpasses even that of the world of perception itself, that in it we certainly have to look for more than that.

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Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation: Second Aspect, as translated by Eric F. J. Payne, 1958
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
1 month 3 weeks ago
The sin of pride may be...

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

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The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) p. 76.
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William James
William James
3 months 3 days ago
Truth lives, in fact, for the...

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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Lecture VI, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
On Ps 60:3: To Thee have...

On Ps 60:3: To Thee have I cried from the ends of the earth.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
If any philosopher had been asked...

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

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Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
'Tis a good word and a...

Tis a good word and a profitable desire, but withal absurd; for to make the handle bigger than the hand, the cubic longer than the arm, and to hope to stride further than our legs can reach, is both impossible and monstrous; or that man should rise above himself and humanity; for he cannot see but with his eyes, nor seize but with his hold. He shall be exalted, if God will lend him an extraordinary hand; he shall exalt himself, by abandoning and renouncing his own proper means, and by suffering himself to be raised and elevated by means purely celestial. It belongs to our Christian faith, and not to the stoical virtue, to pretend to that divine and miraculous metamorphosis.

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Ch. 12
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
Every man is fully satisfied that...

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

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Vol. V, par. 211
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 weeks ago
I do not forgive myself for...

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
Let me now try to gather...

Let me now try to gather up all these odds and ends of commentary and restate the law of mind, in a unitary way.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 2 weeks ago
Write in the sand the flaws...

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

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As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
4 weeks 1 day ago
Gravity is not a version of...

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth-floor window.

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The Genius of Charles Darwin
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 5 days ago
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William James
William James
3 months 3 days ago
Who does not see that we...

Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

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Lecture I, "Religion and Neurology"
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 days ago
The Christian is in a different...

The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or-if they think there is not-at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.

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Book II, Chapter 5, "The Practical Conclusion"
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
1 month 2 weeks ago
Bourgeois norms are experienced as the...

Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order-the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become.

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p. 140
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
A creative economy is the fuel...

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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Aristocracy
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 month 3 weeks ago
People talk, indeed, of a "primitive...

People talk, indeed, of a "primitive mentality", as, for example, to-day that of the inferior races, and in days gone by that of humanity in general, at whose door the responsibility for superstition should be laid.

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Chapter II : Static Religion
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
To say, therefore, that thought cannot...

To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.

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Vol. V, par. 254
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 weeks 5 days ago
Perhaps the most valuable result of...

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

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Technical Education
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 3 weeks ago
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive....

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

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p. 14
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
3 months 1 week ago
My philosophical views approach somewhat closely...

My philosophical views approach somewhat closely those of the late Countess of Conway, and hold a middle position between Plato and Democritus, because I hold that all things take place mechanically as Democritus and Descartes contend against the views of Henry More and his followers, and hold too, nevertheless, that everything takes place according to a living principle and according to final causes - all things are full of life and consciousness, contrary to the views of the Atomists.

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Letter to Thomas Burnet (1697), as quoted in Platonism, Aristotelianism and Cabalism in the Philosophy of Leibniz (1938) by Joseph Politella, p. 18
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
Today, to live means merely to...

Today, to live means merely to produce.

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