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We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#around #benefits #create #economies #enhance

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#continual #desperation #live #men #state

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#hate #idea #like #men #ought

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#could #fast #fear #got #had

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#choice #happiness #happiness lies #individual #lies

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#connections #faith #immediate #must #subsist

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#closely #earned #i #imitate #imitating

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cannot #fact #felicity #fortunate #his