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“Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.”
Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.11
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“Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.”
Source : 1610 On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610.
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“The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.”
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“Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.”
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“How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.”
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“Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined”
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“I think, of the kind of erratic behavior that many of us feared once Trump came into office. And I think you're seeing evidence of that, even though, you know, some of the worst-case scenarios that we imagined have not yet, mercifully, come to pass. I mean, for example, he has not destroyed NATO. He has not launched a trade war with China. He has not lifted sanctions on Russia. In all those cases, in part, because his hands had been tied. And of course, it's only a year in, so he's still got time to go.”
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“Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.”
