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“Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.”
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“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Source : "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.
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“Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.”
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“This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.”
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“Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.”
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“We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.”
Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
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“If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.”
Source : Marc Reisner (1986). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water”
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“There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
