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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. ↗

— Joan Miro

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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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