"We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."

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Source : J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann

J. B. Priestley

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“Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.”
“Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.”

Source : "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.
“One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?”
“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”
“There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.”
“Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?”

Source : "The fashion stars of Central Saint Martins". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.
“That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.”
“Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!”

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