"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”

Source : "The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.
“I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf
“If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.”
“Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.”
“There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.”
“We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude.”
“To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.”

Source : Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”
“After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other”

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