"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Peace Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.”
“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”
“I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.”
“The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.”
“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.”
“I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.”
“We live in a world of terrorism where evil acts are being regularly perpetrated in the name of your faith. And because it is your faith that is being invoked as justification for these evil acts, it is your problem. You can't wish it away, or ignore it, just because it has been caused by others. Instead, speak up and condemn terrorism, defend your role in the way of life that we all share here in Australia.”
“I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.”

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