Quote by Alexander Herzen
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. – Alexander Herzen

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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Beauty
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. – Alexander Herzen

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Slavery
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. – Alexander Herzen

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Assumptions
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. – Oliver Goldsmith

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. – Lydia Maria Child

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. – Proverb

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. – Moli

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My heart is so light that its amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. Its hysterically funny. I am very light. – Linda Hamilton

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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. – Thomas á Kempis

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I think that was a moment of cool panic there. – Ron Atkinson

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

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