#subsist

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks ↗

— Jim Fergus

#introspection #self-reflection #subsistence #life

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together. ↗

— Dudley North

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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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