"Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can."

-- George Washington

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“Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.”
“Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.”
“Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.”

Source : Stuart Cloete (1964). “The Honey Bird: And Other African Stories”
“Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere”

Source : Gerrard Winstanley (1944). “Gerrard Winstanley: selections from his works”
“Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.”
“Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.”
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
“Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.”

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