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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#lovely #melancholy #nothing #sweet

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#energy policy #jobs #lack #our #out

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#i #kids #through #want #went

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#compassion #friendship #indignation #life #long

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#certainties #comfort #i #love #me

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #love #philosophy #death

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#adequately #communities #creating #current #filled

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics