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• [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Liars, Kissing, Men

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Numbers, Pyramids, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

  Erving Goffman

  Men, Cells, May

  Erving Goffman (1969). “Where the action is: three essays”, Lane, Allen

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• It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Humanity, Letters, Spheres

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.45, Bibliolis Books

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• Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

  Dinah Shore

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Religion, Attention

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.

  John Haynes Holmes

  War, Reality, Men

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• We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Teamwork, Respect, Country

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Life, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Understanding, Awakening, Hiv

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.

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• The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Positive, Mean, Important

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• Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

  John Robert Seeley

  Sight, History, Literature

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.

  Frederick Soddy

  Freedom, Fall, Science

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• Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

  Meister Eckhart

  Essence, Community

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• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Home, Two

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 207), 1993.

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Elephants, Atheism

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Past, Men

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Carpe Diem, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, World, Natural

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press

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• Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Law, Growth

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

  James Jeans

  Home, Science, Thinking

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