I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. - George Berkeley

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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

George Berkeley

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

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