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“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”

“Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.”

Self Philosophy Political Self Esteem Fit Lows Stealing Socialism Esteem Willingness Stolen Unwilling Low Self Esteem Incompetence Loathing Self Loathing Habitat Mosquitoes Slugs

Author:L. Neil Smith

“As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.”

Believe Long Philosophy Government Running I Believe Fit I Believe In

Author:Brian Cowen

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes

“Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.”

World Trying Firsts Philosophy Fit Schemes Constructs

Book:Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

“. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories -- specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics.”

“Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.”

Philosophy Reality Lying Fit Illusion Arise Doctrine Ideology Communist Fraud Falsehood Theologian Medieval Distortion Patents Elevation Simplification Truman Anti Communist

Author:J. William Fulbright

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