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The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.”
Gorgias • Plato“When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him... he won't understand a word of it.”
The Castle • Franz Kafka“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne