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subsistence
«Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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Power
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subsistence
«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»
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
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affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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Power
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amounts, subsistence
«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.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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subordination, subsistence, tacit
«Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
bolts, mourns, nuts, nuts and bolts, subordinated, subsistence
