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Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.

John Locke, English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

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