"Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato."

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Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses I. Finley (Second Edition), Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 6, 1985.

Moses Finley

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“All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.”
“No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.”

Source : Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”
“Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.”
“The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.”
“The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.”
“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press
“As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.”
“The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

Source : "Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.

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