Diogenes Quotes
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
Kage Baker
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
Warren Farrell
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
Octavia E. Butler
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
Wallace Stevens
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Ultima ratio Regum
Cardinal Richelieu
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Means are ends in the making.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
William Cowper
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Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.
John Gay
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I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
Jose Mujica
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes