The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks
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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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Domesticated animals are said to serve three functions, sometimes called the 3 F’s: food, fiber and friends. Dogs have made the complete transition to friends. For most people, cattle remain solidly in the first two categories, but I have no doubt that they can be friends, too.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
~ Blaise Pascal
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The Russian revolution was not a socialist revolution, but a managerial revolution. Today Russia is the nation which has, in its structural aspects, advanced furthest along the managerial road.
~ James Burnham
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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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