It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
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Anthony Liccione
What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. Those two strangers — that man and woman sitting on my sofa — are actually my parents. Oh, you mean your place? Yes, let’s evict your...
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Jonathan Dunne
Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.
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Nick Krampus
More Quotes By James C. Scott
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.
It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.
Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every...
The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!
Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.
