"Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods,……" — Ovid

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a… — Annie Besant
• The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to… — Saint John Chrysostom
• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own… — Samuel Johnson
• Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg
• No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is… — Jules Verne
• I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the… — George W. Bush
• Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. — Gautama Buddha
• At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there… — Simone Weil
• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of… — Odilon Redon
• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy,… — Viktor Korchnoi
• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one… — C L R James

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