"Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting."

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Source : Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”

Harry Golden

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“If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub
“No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.”
“O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.”
“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”
“Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.”
“Any powerful technology can be abused.”
“Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!”

Source : Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.

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