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«Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.»
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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«The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy»
«Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?»
«Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes»
«The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.»
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