"A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show."

-- Alexander Herzen

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“Cricket was my reason for living.”
“Once you make a mistake in a fight or competition you never do that again.”
“Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.”

Source : Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown
“I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.”
“Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.”
“(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.”
“History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.”
“I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.”

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