"I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857."

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Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.2, VM eBooks

Edward Bellamy

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“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source : Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown
“Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.”
“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' Ãªtre, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”

Source : "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.
“I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.”
“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”
“The essence of justice is mercy.”

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