"Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction."

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“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”

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"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."

— Stephen Crane

Literature1871–1900

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"The outward efforts will never be insignificant if the inner light is great."

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Music1959

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"It’s time we all acknowledged the genius of the North’s propaganda apparatus, however much distaste we feel about it. It works with the grain of human nature. Kim Il Sung’s first speech in Pyongyang i…"

— Brian Reynolds Myers

Education1963

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"It is likely … that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves."

— Richard Weaver

Politics1575–1642

#Human Nature