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«The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.»

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss (Philosopher) | Keywords: castes, caste system, concomitant, concomitants, empires, enlightenment, exploitation, favored, grading, integration, large numbers, phenomenon, political system, The Creation

«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»

Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits

«A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.»

Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Genius | Keywords: buoyant, cheerfulness, concomitant, concomitants, erudition, gravity, harmless, hilarity, infrequent, pomposity, solemnities, solemnity

«Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.»

Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: beastly, commensurate, concomitant, concomitants, food chain, guides, highlight, highlighted, highlighting, highlights, matching, The Food Chain

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