Quote by Victor Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo

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Literary
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. – Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969

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Society

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Society

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, its not good to limit the number of voices. – Michael Moore

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Society

Society therefore is an ancient as the world. – Voltaire

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Society

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The more things change, the more they are the same. – Alphonse Karr

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But the buildings identity resided in the ornament. – Louis Sullivan

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! – Isaac Asimov

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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm. – Terrence Howard

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