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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#anything #governments #history #learned #never

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

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Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. ↗

— Keith Henson

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Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty. ↗

— Eugene Sue

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. ↗

— Heraclitus

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It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#back #especially #get #go #good

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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