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“Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?”
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“An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.”
Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”
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“I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.”
Source : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers
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“To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.”
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“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
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“Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.”
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“Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.”
Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1950). “The Bess Streeter Aldrich reader”
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“The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.”