Great Throughts Treasury

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Gustavo GutiƩrrez

The Exodus from Egypt, the home of sacred monarchy, reinforces this idea [desacralization of creation]: it is the 'desacralization' of social praxis. . . . In Egypt, work is alienated and, far from building a just society, contributes rather to increasing injustice and to widening the gap between exploiters and exploited.

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

Italian Proverbs

To a crazy ship every wind is contrary.

Inevitable | News | Public | Talking |

Italian Proverbs

There is no love without jealousy.

Talking | Worth |

Italian Proverbs

The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.

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Italian Proverbs

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.

Absolute | Giving | God | Good | Nothing | Paradise | Talking | God |