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“It will be fun to give some to prostitutes,”
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“My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.”
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“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
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“Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.”
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“Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.”
Source : Talk at Arse Elektronika, 2010.
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“Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.”
Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Science of the Sacraments”
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“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.”
Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.316
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“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”