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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. ↗

— Simone Weil

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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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