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“The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.”
Source : Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Source : "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.
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“I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.”
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“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.”
Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.80, 谷月社
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“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.”
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“many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.”
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“One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.”
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“Don't uncork what you can't contain”
Source : Twitter post from Apr 1, 2014