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The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗


— Georg Simmel


#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. ↗


— Peter Singer


#contexts #different #everyone #i #i think

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence. ↗


— John J. Sirica


#because #candor #court #courts #criminal

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. ↗


— Curtis Sittenfeld


#better #books #credit #having #however

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. ↗


— Swami Sivananda


#humility #indeed #meekness #powers #spiritual

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. ↗


— Gerrit Smith


#man #mercy #never #noble #powers

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. ↗


— Goldwin Smith


#art #back #believe #bring #fancy

The most powerful moral influence is example. ↗


— Huston Smith


#influence #moral #most #most powerful #powerful

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love. ↗


— Jada Pinkett Smith


#conversation #down #love #people #power

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. ↗


— Iain Duncan Smith


#institution #marriage #more #powerful #promoting






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