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Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
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[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34

 

Zygmunt Bauman

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The rights of men to the use of land are not joint rights: they are equal rights.
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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.

 

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In the beginning I was just as ready as anyone to fall into step, to seek out the guilty and to punish the sinners, even to become a leader. Nothing, I felt, would give me more gratification than riding the steed of yellow journalism into crusade, doing the book that would right the old wrongs.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. [p.277]

 

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