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“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.”
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“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.”
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“The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating”
Source : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.72, University of Toronto Press
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“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.”
Source : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.
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“To justify God's ways to man.”
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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”
