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There was a theorist called Zygmunt Bauman who wrote about “liquid love,” the idea that late capitalism had “liquified” a lot of connections between people. When the world is a marketplace, he argued, we don’t want to tie ourselves tightly ...more
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William Shakespeare
“Et tu, Brute?”
William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
Frederick Lewis Donaldson

Socrates
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
Socrates

Marcus Aurelius
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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