"Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production."

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Source : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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“All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.”
“I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.”
“Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2008). “Fallen”, p.120, Spectra
“By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.”

Source : John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156
“Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.”
“stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions”

Source : "I Believe in Unicorns". Book by Michael Morpurgo, 2005.
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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