"Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence."

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Thomas Paine

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“The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.”
“â€¦but Sassenachâ€”I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.â€ He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my fingers. â€œI have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenachâ€”but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,â€ he said softly. â€œAnd you know that.”
“People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.”
“Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.”
“Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.”
“I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.”
“All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation
“I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.”

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