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“In a popular state the inhabitants are divided into certain classes,” Montesquieu affirmed in a Marxian manner a century before Marx! So, the popular state is a fiction; it is transient, fleeting, and for this reason — imaginable only. In its rigorous scientific sense of a class instrument, it is practically an empty matter sophism, a complete commonplaceness, an offspring of mental weakness. There is no such state! If it is a state, it is not popular! If it is popular, it is not a state yet! The State is a violent institution for social injustice generated by two main classes, which are main ones because they are at enmity… Any people closed in a state, are divided into classes. “For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.”(Plato, The Republic).  Not Marx, still Plato said the truth!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I have watched people come to revival meetings burdened, broken, and hopeless, and then leave completely transformed. The difference is undeniable—their eyes are brighter, their posture changes, and their spirit is lighter because Jesus set them free.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“Woher glaubst Du, daß uns ein fester Halt werden könnte in solchen Zeiten des Zerfalls des Inneren?” fragte ich Klara.
„Jedenfalls nicht aus Welten, von denen wir nichts wissen noch kennen können, das siehst Du nun an dieser verarmten Marie. Von jenen überirdischen Tröstungen weiß sie, aber sonst weiß sie nichts und besitzt nichts. Wir haben reale geistige Güter, an denen sich die Seele erquicken kann, was uns auch treffen mag. Für solche arme, beraubte Leben möchte man bitten: ...
„Klara,“ sagte ich, „ist denn nicht neben all‘ den köstlichen Quellen der Poesie und alles Wissens auch die Herrlichkeit dieser Natur, die uns umgiebt, eine solche, ja eine Hauptquelle der Erquickung? Marie kennt diese, warum kann sie nicht mehr daran trinken?“
„Sie hat nie recht daran getrunken,“ meinte Klara, „ihr inneres Auge war nie geöffnet für diese Schönheit.“
„Sollte es nicht Krankheiten geben, die auch die geöffneten Augen schließen und die Aufnahme all‘ dieser Erquickungen unmöglich machen könnten, Klara?“
„Nein,“ sagte sie bestimmt; „ausgerüstet mit dem geweiteten Blicken des Gebildeten, dem alle Quellen des geistigen Lebens geöffnet sind, kann uns ein solches Kranken nicht niederwerfen. Nicht die Schutzmittel fehlen, die Kenntnis derselben fehlt, wo solches geschehen kann. Versiegt für uns eine Quelle, die uns Kräfte des Lebens zugeführt, so kennen wir tausend andere, daraus wir schöpfen können; wir müssen nicht ermatten, wie das Land, dem der einzige Bach vertrocknet, dessen Wasser es grünen gemacht.
~ Aus Früheren Tagen”
― Johanna Spyri, Die Werke von Johanna Spyri

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Second. The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“was hard to speak the truth in a world where lies were currency.”
― Malorie Blackman, Crossfire

“A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture