"Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

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Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 53,

Bion of Borysthenes

#Principles Quotes #Common Quotes #Property Quotes

“Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.”
“In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.”

Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.
“The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”
“Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”
“A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.”
“Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.”
“it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones”

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