The Prophet
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your
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“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And”
― Nineteen Eighty-Four
― Nineteen Eighty-Four
“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Melting Stones
― Melting Stones
“We must expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”
― Purposeful Productivity: A Guide to Goal Planning, Stopping Procrastination and Building Online Businesses
― Purposeful Productivity: A Guide to Goal Planning, Stopping Procrastination and Building Online Businesses
“No one is to be found who is willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does each one of us distribute his life! In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.” - Seneca”
― Purposeful Productivity: A Guide to Goal Planning, Stopping Procrastination and Building Online Businesses
― Purposeful Productivity: A Guide to Goal Planning, Stopping Procrastination and Building Online Businesses
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― Nineteen Eighty-Four
― Nineteen Eighty-Four
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