"But if it bee well considered, The praise of Ancient Authors, proceeds not from the reverence of the Dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the Living."

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“"Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech."”

“"For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all."”

“...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.”

“No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”

“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.”

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"…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same."

— Ela Bhatt

Politics1933–2022

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"I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes thi…"

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Literature1951–2003

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"When your eyes are shut, you start seeing in ways that we’ve always known! Living so many ways of shaping these days - and feel those rays warm the skin on our face."

— Ike Moriz

Music1972

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