"Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?"

-- Peter Kropotkin

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“When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.”
“After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.”
“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
“The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?”

Source : John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.26
“You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.”
“To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (2004). “How to Find the Work You Love”, p.22, Penguin
“I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.”
“This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?”

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