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“Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.”

Names Land Species Producers Convenient Surplus

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“He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.”

Doe Hundred Eclipse

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“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”

Ifs Should Said Dies Advice Medical Tea Beef Mutton

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“A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.”

Men Doe Faith Bargains Bargaining

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“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”

Men Should May Mean Blood Capable Opponents Shed Rude Disputes Vindicated Mean Man

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“I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.”

Self Confidence Twelve

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“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”

Peace Justice Higher Conscience Court Peace And Justice Peace Justice

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

Love Inspirational Kind Two Fear Peace Leadership Love Is Power Thousand Punishment Permanent Power Of Love Acts Of Love Greatest Fear Power And Love Power And Fear Justice And Love

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“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”

Men Strong Justice Integrity Weak Intention Accidents Violent Unjust Glitter Being Strong Non Violent Weak Man Violent Man

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“Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.”

Inspirational Action Lying Goal Glory Reaching Treatment

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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”

Knows Men Humans Has Beens Evil Influence Love You Human Nature Despair Yield Brutes Evil Man Good Against Evil Lesser Evil Human Capacity Nature Of Evil

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“Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”

Mines Gold Dust Broadway Gotham

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“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .”

Materials Property Isolated Interaction Abstraction Particles Interaction With Others

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“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

Humans Individual Language Given Study Development Ordinary Tasks Accounts Independent Method Physics Objectives Judgement Human Experience Subjective Human Language

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“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.”

Thinking Want Believe Suffering Doubt Greater

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“There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.”

Theatre Brothels

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“We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.”

People Ifs World Ends Acting Mankind Mass Harmony Instinct Violent Day To Day

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“In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.”

Way States Interest Identity Particular Aim Bureaucracy

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“If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.”

Ifs Faces Atheism Battle Horse Finals Positive Atheism Heat Bruised Baton Cavalry

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“Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.”

Government Taxes Method Payment Withholding

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“True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.”

Prove Industrious True Education

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“I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.”

Advice Following Handy Frantic

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“... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.”

Needs Should Writing Able Religious Consciousness Mystery Example Humble Sooner Or Later

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“If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.”

Ifs Would Be Animal Hell Dignity Criminal Mind Used In Criminal Minds

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“Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.”

Stills Easy Nature Sky Lays Lakes Dragonflies

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“Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.”

Poetry Trade Grandfather Desks Layoff

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“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

Desire Certain Levels Numbers Struggle Wife Ambition Racist Occupation Hunting Sole Degradation Cattle Degrade Indolence

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“I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”

Seems Government Ability Victory Bloodshed

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“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.”

Way Mind Law Race Becoming Europe Court University Borders Prophet Cracks Factories Frozen Minerals Wrapping Law Courts Embalming

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“Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.”

Humans May Matter Human Beings Demand Serving Nonviolence

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“It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.”

Remember Profit Nurse Enmity

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“An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.”

Way Suffering Leader Institutions

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“The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.”

Men Age Heaven Willing Every Man

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“The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Passion Jesus Christ Lord Enemy Jesus Christ Overcoming Blessed Our Lord Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ

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“Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.”

Ifs Teach Rich Lessons Affliction

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“Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.”

World Earth Principles Wipe Ahimsa

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“The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”

Expression Highest Removal Ahimsa Untouchability

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“Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.”

Irresistible Ahimsa

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“Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.”

Mass Selfless Selfless Service Ahimsa

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“What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?”

Draws Fearless Ahimsa

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“Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.”

Way Truth Is Realization Ahimsa

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“A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.”

Fighting Soldier Boat Bridges Irresistible Ahimsa

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“Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.”

Wealth Waste Wasting Time Gita

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“I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.”

Stills Philosophy Teaching Fancy Gita True Meaning

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“Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.”

Ifs Book Sin Divine Gita Untouchability

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“The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.”

Interest Realizing Essentials India Oneness

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“I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.”

Age India Spinning

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“I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.”

Believe Country I Believe Depends Salvation Wheels Spinning

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“The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.”

Ifs Problem Poverty India Solve Wheels Spinning

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“The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.”

Pieces Wheels Reverence Bows Machinery Inventor Spinning Exquisite

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