"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."

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"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."

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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The ear is the avenue to the heart."

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"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."

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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

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"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."

Marissa Meyer, American Author

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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."

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"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."

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"Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."

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"Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?"

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"Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself."

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"Man has been adjudged a social animal."

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"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind."

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"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."

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"But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?"

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"Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us."

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