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Ludwig Wittgenstein : For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (p. 25) #Language

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (p. 25)" #Language

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Charles Evans Hughes: "It is not surprising that many should be captivated by the proposal, with its delusive simplicity and adequacey, for the outlawry of war. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The suggestion, however futile in itself, has at least the merit of bringing us to the core of the problem. Even among its sponsors appear at once the qualifications which reflect the old distinction, so elaborately argued by Grotius, between just and unjust wars. "The grounds of war," said he, " are as numerous as those of judicial actions. For where the power of law ceases, there war begins." He found the justifiable causes generally assigned for war to be three — defense, indemnity, and punishment. War is self-help, and the right to make war has been recognized as the corollary of independence, the permitted means by which injured nations protect their territory and maintain their rights. International law leaves aggrieved states who cannot obtain redress for their wrongs by peaceful means to exact it by force. If war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw self-defense, a right still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support the war. There is a further difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver for independent States. There is no legislature to impose its will by majority vote, no executive to give effect even to accepted rules. The outlawry of war necessarily implies a self-imposed restraint, and free peoples, jealous of their national safety, of their freedom of opportunity, of the rights and privileges they deem essential to their well-being, will not forego the only sanction at their command in extreme exigencies. The restraints they may be willing to place upon themselves will always be subject to such conditions as will leave them able to afford self-protection by force, and in this freedom there is abundant room for strife sought to be justified by deep-seated convictions of national interests, by long-standing grievances by the apprehension of aggression to be forestalled. The outlawry of war, by appropriate rule of law making war a crime, requires the common accord needed to establish and maintain a rule of international law, the common consent to abandon war; and the suggested remedy thus implies a state of mind in which no cure is needed. As the restraint is self-imposed it will prove to be of avail only while there is a will to peace." #Language

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Swami Vivekananda: "The goal of mankind is knowledge. . . . Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man "knows," should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what man "learns" is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge." #Language

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Henry David Thoreau: "When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it." #Language

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Harry Mathews: "Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents." #Language

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Ferdinand De Saussure: "Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent." #Language

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June Jordan: "Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children." #Language

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Dwight D Eisenhower: "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law." #Language

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Arthur Koestler: ""Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means."" #Language

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Edwin Meese: "U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect." #Language

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." #Intelligence and Intellectuals

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." #Vocabulary

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." #Silence

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." #Enjoyment

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." #Language

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded." #Censure

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy." #Happiness

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)" #Love

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." #Health

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage. (p. 38e)" #Genius

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