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Diogenes
"Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy."
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Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius (Book 6 "The Cynics", Chapter "Diogenes", No. LXIV), circa 200 AD.
Diogenes
#Philosophy Quotes
#Pretender Quotes
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“What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.”
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“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”
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“Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.”
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“In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.”
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“You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?”
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“I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.”
Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media
