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“I want to seize fate by the throat.”

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"Real love has nothing to do with lust or self-centeredness. In real love, you are not important; the other is important. In love, the other is not your instrument to fulfil your selfish desires; you a…"

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Politics1953

#happiness

"Other things than to fight, there is, even for dragons."

— John Wyndham

Literature

#war

"Allegiance to the group identity forged by political party affiliation renders Americans blind to the essential similarities between the agendas of the two parties, similarities that can be expected t…"

— Jason Stanley

Economics1969

#art

"In Freud's crowd, the individuals fasten on an object, substitute it for their ego ideal, and all those with the same ego ideal identify themselves with each other in their ego. Remove the object and …"

— George Goodman

Economics1930–2014

#humor