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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.: Unknown, (attributed incorrectly to James Madison)
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), Pensees(II,72)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.: Raoul Vaneigem
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.: Krishnamurti
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.: Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)

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