"Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'."
Martha Beck
"Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge."
Blaise Tshibwabwa
"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
William Faulkner
"Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated."
Jeff Wheeler
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
C.S. Lewis
"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin
"A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said 'I would do thee no harm for the world but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'."
James Hines
"Dignity is pride’s barometer."
Anonymous
"Point of view.' I never got that phrase, point of view; doesn’t everyone have a point in their view? If not thenthey don’t have a view on a certain topic they are just indifferent. Anyone who has a view certainly cares enough to have apoint!"
CV
"No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money."
Anonymous
"What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit."
Jewel
"I know lots more old drunks than old doctors."
Joe E. Lewis
"Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom."
Debasish Mridha
"Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger."
Hui-Neng
"Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary."
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