An element of goodness may be found even in our worst enemy. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. A persistent civil war rages within all or our lives.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An element of goodness may be found even in our worst enemy. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. A persistent civil war rages within all or our lives.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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So many people are little countries, bounded all around by themselves and they never quite get out of themselves. And these are the persons who are victimized with arrested development.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
~ Niels Bohr
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If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.
~ Omar Bradley
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