"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretationâ€¦ for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
“Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.”
“I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!”
“He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”
“The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.”
“Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.”
“Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.”

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