“So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one of which was you.”
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I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one of which was you.”
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“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
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“The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
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