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The wise come into their majority out in the world, amid the muck and pain of living.
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
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“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
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“The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Voyage of the Beagle
― Voyage of the Beagle
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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