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Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
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Alexander Pushkin (Dubrovsky)
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That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.
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David Graeber (Anarchy — In a Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman)
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Americans pride themselves on being a democratic society, but if you ask the average American “When was the last time you were part of a group of more than five people who made a collective decision on a more or less equal basis?” most will just scratch their heads.
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David Graeber (Anarchy — In a Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman)
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Most revolutions happen not because people are starving but because somebody is breaking the rules to a degree that people won't stand for it anymore.
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Nika Dubrovsky (Anarchy — In a Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman)
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Dos ideas fijas no pueden existir al mismo tiempo en el ámbito de lo moral, de igual modo que en el mundo físico dos cuerpos no pueden ocupar idéntico lugar”.
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Alexander Pushkin (La dama de picas / Dubrovski)
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Dígale que las riquezas no le proporcionarán a usted ni un minuto de felicidad; el lujo sólo consuela al pobre, y aun entonces, sólo por un instante ante lo desacostumbrado que resulta”.
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Alexander Pushkin (La dama de picas / Dubrovski)