Everybody’s style of speaking is a mixture of echoes dating… - Theodore Zeldin

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Everybody’s style of speaking is a mixture of echoes dating from different epochs of the past: hers recalls the prudent and modest civil servants of the last century who were proud that they represented the state and who took care not to compromise themselves by saying the wrong thing.

Theodore Zeldin

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Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a British philosopher, historian, and writer.

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Aşırı dindarlık, iki farklı şekilde çıkar karşımıza; birincisinde dünyadan günahı silmeyi amaçlayarak kendi fikirlerini herkese empoze etmeye çalışır; diğerinde ise tehlikeli etkilerden arınmış, içine kapalı bir varoluşa ulaşabilmek için kendini dünyanın günahkarlığından uzaklaştırır.

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves.

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