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Way Quotes - Page 320

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Thomas Paine (1797). “Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and Agrarian Monopoly. Being a plan for ameliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a National Fund”, p.3

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.148, Sounds True

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Speech at the meeting of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Madison Square, October, 1917.