The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
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It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
