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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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Personal Development
"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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Personal Development
"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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Personal Development
"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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Personal Development
"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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Personal Development
"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
Experience
"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
Religion
"Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past."
Past
"Man is everywhere still in chains."
Man
"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
Society
"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
Society
"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
Attitude
"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."
Quality
"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."
Happiness
"In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence."
Unity
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