"One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve."

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Source : Nicholas Rescher (1990). “Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology”, p.101, Stanford University Press

Nicholas Rescher

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”

Source : "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.
“A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.”
“Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.”
“When I first started playing, I definitely had a younger scum-punk crowd, but as my music developed more and after I started playing electric guitar - you'd think it would be opposite - but a lot of people were like, "You've changed." And I have more of an older audience now.”
“If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.”

Source : Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.34, Grove Press
“Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, 1922.
“As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.”

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