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“Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.

“Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.”

Source : "The Junius Pamphlet". 1915.

“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

“One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.”

“You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.”

Source : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

“Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.”