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«Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.»
Author: George Sand
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Charity
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«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
Author: John Lothrop Motley
(Diplomat, Historian)
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Luxury
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«We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
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«Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
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«There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
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Science
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«Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it»
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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