She was thankful that in her job, she didn’t have to choose sides–she fought against currency counterfeiters, stock and bond forgers, money launderers, diamond smugglers–in short, lowlifes like Spyro Leandrou who engaged in activities that were universally perceived as wrong.
An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the...
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Immanuel Kant
- Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, forças jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vão por falta de apoio, e isso aos milhares, e isso em toda parte! Cem, mil boas ações e iniciativas que poderiam ser implementadas e reparadas com o dinheiro da velha, destinado a...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which...
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Criss Jami
From time to time I once wondered how one wanders from time to time And think up the paradox line Speak of Epoch's crime Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet But bet you better believe it's such a habit that I just said that...
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Criss Jami
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She was thankful that in her job, she didn’t have to choose sides–she fought against currency counterfeiters, stock and bond forgers, money launderers, diamond smugglers–in short, lowlifes like Spyro Leandrou who engaged in activities that were universally perceived as wrong.
Blood diamonds, she thought. That’s exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.
