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Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity… — Parker J. Palmer
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion… — Benito Mussolini
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the… — Henry David Thoreau
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. — Johann Georg Hamann
Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice… — St. Jerome
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if… — Noam Chomsky
As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect… — Kazuaki Tanahashi
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be… — Russell Kirk
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then… — Salvador de Madariaga
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and… — Francis Schaeffer
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or… — Erich Fromm
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted… — Leon Trotsky
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by… — Charles Wesley
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. — Georg Simmel
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever… — Emma Goldman
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit… — Henry David Thoreau
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches… — Sigmund Freud
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;… — Victor Hugo
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design… — I. J. Good
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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