“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― diary of Anne Frank: the play
― diary of Anne Frank: the play
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