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«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.»
«What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?»
«Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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comparative, disturb, escapes, harass, harassed, harasses
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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