"Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world."

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Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

J. E. Buckrose

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“The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.”
“You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort,”
“I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.”
“I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.”
“I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.”
“Jest with your equals.”
“Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.”
“We are all part of one another.”

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