I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
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Unknown
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept...
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Jerry Spinelli
Civilization is vastly overrated.
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Patricia Briggs
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Erma Bombeck
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they...
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Daniel Quinn
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.
