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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his read more
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra read more
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra Carey.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
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.
This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.
This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not read more
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
