"Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (1976). “Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning”, p.79, TCU Press
“A lot of the hot music today comes from what's being done in R&B and hip-hop.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.”
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.”
“Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.192, Transaction Publishers
“When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.”

Source : "Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial" by Bridie Jabour, Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.
“When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.”
“Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.”

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