"A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful."

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Source : "If This Is a Man". Book by Primo Levi, 1947.

Primo Levi

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“Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.”
“Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.”
“Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. Â But then people are like â€˜Darren whatâ€™re you doing?â€™ And I just sit there and laugh because theyâ€™re not cool enough to be an octopus and Iâ€™m just like â€˜Hah youâ€™re just jealous because youâ€™re not an octopus.â€™”
“Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.”
“I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count â€¦ Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.”
“This marriage is no one's business but our own.”
“Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.”

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