"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."

-- Robert Musil

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“If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.”

Source : "Wealth Against Commonwealth".
“So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.”
“I wish I werenâ€™t reeling at all.”
“The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.”
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.”
“Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.”
“People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.”

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