#parable

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency? ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#inseparable #liberty #now #union

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#capable #comparable #discovery #give #happiness

Nothing is irreparable in politics. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#nothing #politics

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#parable #pie #food

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. ↗

— Alan Moore

#parables #storytelling #true

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#change #comparable #earth #edge #human