Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo
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  2. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann

  4. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. - Jasper Fforde

  5. It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. - Diogenes Of Sinope

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  1. What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

  2. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in...

  3. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  4. Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>All at once, at...

  5. You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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