"It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank."

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Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

Thomas Malthus

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“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”

Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press
“A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”

Source : Sybille Bedford (1990). “As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice”, Trafalgar Square
“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”
“Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1890). “Nature and Culture”, p.2, Library of Alexandria
“Baltimore holds a lot of mystery for me still, despite the fact I've lived there most of my life. I think its shares a lot of issues and dominant themes with other second-tier post-industrial cities in the U.S. It has a universal resonance.”
“I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.”
“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”

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