"We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence...."

-- Pope Leo XIII

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“If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.”
“War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.”
“To reach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must first remember your Divine Mother... Your Mother is alive and very much conscious... Earth is not a rock, she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believe me, she knows your name.”

Source : Drunvalo Melchizedek (2008). “Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light”, p.4, Weiser Books
“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
“The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.”
“Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.”
“The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.”

Source : Jay Wright Forrester (1968). “Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook”
“I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.”

Source : "Penelope Ann Miller, Who Stars In ‘The Artist,’ Talks Working With Harvey Weinstein" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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