"Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil."

-- Antoine Destutt de Tracy

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“For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.”
“Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened,”
“Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.”
“Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.”
“A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others”
“People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. Thatâ€™s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be â€œcorrectâ€ or â€œtrueâ€? Merely vague conceptsâ€¦ Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?”

Source : "Naruto". Manga by Masashi Kishimoto, 1999 - 2014.
“I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.”
“I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.”

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