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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #color #covered #explicit #heart

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #colour #covered #explicit #heart

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ↗

— James A. Michener

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

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The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

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