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"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak." »George Orwell
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"Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever." »Deng Ming-Dao
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"Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection." »Livy
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"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." »Theodore Harold White
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"The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love." »Bernard Grasset
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"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!" »Alexander Pope
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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." »M. Grundler
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"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." »O. A. Battista
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet." »Isadora Duncan
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"Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice." »Leon Lessinger
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust." »Karl Kraus
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"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." »Leonid Brezhnev
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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them." »Alan Watts
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"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera." »Israel Zangwill
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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination." »Maurice Godelier
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope." »Herbert Hoover
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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