"Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones."

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William Penn

#Excess Quotes #World Quotes #Naked Quotes

“I thought you didn't want to let me go.”
“As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.”
“An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.”
“Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”
“Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.”

Source : Diana Palmer (2005). “Night Fever”, p.89, HQN Books
“One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.”
“The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media
“Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.”

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