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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.
Hope | Observation | Will | World | Think | Understand |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature.
Hope |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
There is one rule for minds and bodies: they can only be preserved by continual nourishment.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
Through cultivating the Way, you can increase your wisdom, your resolve for Bodhi, the power of your vows, and everything else.
Hope |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
Jealousy is an evil mental state which is hidden in one's thoughts.
Hope won't be cut from the soul that has not expired. (Meaning: As long as there is life, there is hope.)
Hope |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I think we're in the end-game now…. I think we're in a six-month window here where it's going to become very clear and this is all going to pre-empt, I think, the next congressional election — that's my own feeling — let alone the presidential one.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
Our challenge today, as individual nations and as a civilization, is to develop a Clean Energy System that can do exactly that - enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things – in terms of generating clean electrons, steadily improving our overall energy and resource efficiency, and promoting conservation. This is our biggest challenge because only such a system will enable us to grow as a world economy – not only without exacerbating energy supply and demand issues, petrodictatorship, climate change, biodiversity loss and energy poverty, but while actually reducing them at the same time. If you don’t have a system, you don’t have a solution. If you hear a politician calling for “renewable energy” walk away. If you hear a politician calling for a “renewable energy system” listen up.
If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.
Day | Duty | Good | Hope | Impression | Little | Manliness | Thinking | Waiting |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
Hope | Humanity | Innocence | Men | Power | Revenge | Salvation | Vengeance |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.