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“I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.”

Want Whole Guy Wish Deals Organization Bottom Staff All The Best

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.”

Ifs Should Littles Lying Left Wish Wonder Bottom Data Lasting Confession Pauses Strict Empiricism Opaque

Book:Essays in Philosophy

Source: Essays in Philosophy

“You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.”

Might Next Wish Bits Steps Breaths Bottom Leap Stairs

Book:The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

“When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.”

Government Wish Cutting Tree Fruit Bottom Savages Despotism Louisiana

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.”

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something that they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do.”

Country Character Fighting Wish Achieve Skills Demand Standards Bottom Acquire Live By Consumerism Environmentalism Overconsumption Standards Of Living Robbery Robbing

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays