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“I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”
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“What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.”
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“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”
Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press
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“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
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“The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.”
Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.229
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“Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?”
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“We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.”
Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press
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“Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong”
