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Famous Greek philosopher Plato was a secret follower of Pythagoras and shared his belief that the secrets to universe lie in numbers and maths.   The inference has been drawn from "secret messages" uncovered from Plato's ancient writings by a British academic at Manchester University, which have been debated for 2,000 years by the greatest minds in history.   Plato, who died around 347BC, is arguably the greatest of all the Greek philosophers. With his mentor Socrates, and his student Aristotle, he laid down the foundations of Western philosopher and science.   Now, according to Dr Jay Kennedy, one of Plato's most important beliefs was hidden in his writing.   "Plato's books played a major role in founding Western culture but they are mysterious and end in riddles. In antiquity, many of his followers said the books contained hidden layers of meaning and secret codes, but this was rejected by modern scholars.   "It is a long and exciting story, but basically I cracked the code. I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols and that unravelling them reveals the hidden philosophy of Plato.   "The result was amazing -- it was like opening a tomb and finding new set of gospels written by Jesus Christ himself," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Kennedy as saying.

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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes   "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen   "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu   "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." - Thomas Mann   "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens   "Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau   "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker   "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - John Lennon and Paul McCartney   "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe   "Whoso loves believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning   "Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Rumi

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"Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality."
Eli Khamarov, "Lives of the Cognoscenti"

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
Reuben Blades

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well."
Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Krishnamurti

"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned."
Swami Nirmalananda, Enlightened Anarchism

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions.  What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."  George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

"Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon."
Octavio Paz

"The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft."
Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers, 1942

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
Steven Wright

"There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children.  This time comes at the moment of conception.  A child needs a role model, not a supermodel."
Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau

"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."
David Harris

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers."
Unknown author, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
Author Unknown

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin

"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
Mary Ellen Kelly

"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
William Lloyd Garrison

"Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners." 
Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

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The recent unfortunate death of Bruce Wasserstein has made a lot of Wall Street types ponder the meaning of life, death and the beauty of a glass of champagne on moneymaking duty. For who knows when you are going to die, says Dennis Berman and Evan Newmark in a video uploaded on Wall Street Journal. It is strange to see these men ponder death with as much attention as they usually reserve for the face of Ben Franklin. Strange, because to most sane men in the world, these Wall Street types are not really living much of a life.
 
Wasserstein was the Harvard graduate billionaire (oh, not another!) who just died last week due to heart failure. He headed Lazard Ltd, one of the largest investment banks in America, and had recently donated a fortune to his already wealthy alma mater.
 
On October 12, he was taken to the hospital on complaints of a chest pain. The condition grew serious, but then there were reports of a recovery, which helped share prices some. On October 14, Bruce helped his former employer once more, with reports of immediate recovery and raised the price of Lazard's (NYSE: LAZ) shares. Then he died.
 
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"Doesn't all sensory experiences as well as languages give us a false perception of the reality? Doesn't each experience is only really see through the individual experiencer, therefore looking for the real meaning or truth cannot be said to be universal experience of what is the ultimate truth?  And that the language is only one of the senses how we perceive the world; sight, smell, touch, hearing have as much effect on our individual perception of the individual truth... Doesn't each person has it's own idea of what is the reality... Is this the idea of reality what others see as well? no?"
 
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