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• Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

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• We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And, the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless -- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.' That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

  ~ John Keating quotes from Dead Poets Society

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• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

  ~ Jean Cocteau quotes

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• Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn’t important doesn’t have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They’ll argue, “Well, money isn’t important as love.” Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What’s more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they’re both important.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

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