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Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.

— Pitirim Sorokin The Ways and Power of Love (1954)

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Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

Pitirim Sorokin (1927)

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Pitirim Sorokin (1964)

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Pitirim Sorokin (1942)

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

The Ways and Power of Love (1954)

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

Pitirim Sorokin (1937)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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