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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker…
— John Bates Clark
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
— Denis Diderot
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,…
— Henry George
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The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle…
— George Orwell
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I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
— Rabia Basri
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed…
— Anthony of Padua
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The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
— Julien Benda
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time…
— Rick Moody
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