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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War

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