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| 29.05.2010 |
| It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| 28.05.2010 |
| If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure |
| Buddha |
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| 27.05.2010 |
| Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair! |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| 26.05.2010 |
| And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? / And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. |
| Bible |
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| 25.05.2010 |
| The machine yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time, never watches the foreman, never talks back |
| Carl Sandburg |
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| 24.05.2010 |
| And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. |
| Bible |
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| 22.05.2010 |
| Is it then that we are not going to die, / Except our previous death? And we shall not be chastised? / Most surely this is the mighty achievement. |
| Quran |
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| 21.05.2010 |
| Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. |
| Paul Gauguin |
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| 20.05.2010 |
| Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| 19.05.2010 |
| Have you not considered those (Jews) who are given a portion of the Book? They are invited to the Book of Allah that it might decide between them, then a part of them turn back and they withdraw. |
| Quran |
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| 18.05.2010 |
| A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| 17.05.2010 |
| It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. |
| Aesop |
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| 14.05.2010 |
"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion."
Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| 13.05.2010 |
When we say ‘our rulers’, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so… those who control the symbols rule us.
Bankers, priests, lawyers,… politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class. |
| Alfred Korzybski |
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| 12.05.2010 |
| The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| 10.05.2010 |
| Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body |
| Samuel Johnson |
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