I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.
~ Roger Scruton
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It is a rather singular argument to maintain that, because an abuse which has been permitted a temporary existence, cannot be corrected without wounding the interests of those who have profited by it, it ought, therefore, to claim perpetual duration.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games.
~ Iain Banks
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
~ Audre Lorde
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