"Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."

-- Karl Marx

#Dog Quotes #Long Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.”
“May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.”
“My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.”
“You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary.”

Source : David McCullough, Jr. (2014). “You Are Not Special: … And Other Encouragements”, p.6, Harper Collins
“The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.”
“The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.”
“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.171, CUA Press
“I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.”

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