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ÔÇ£Hearts are wild creatures. That's why our ribs are cages.ÔÇØ
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a centre.So we lost our centre & have to find it again.ÔÇØ
Anais Nin
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ÔÇ£Remember: there is nothing narural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it's the result of an economic & political system that values wealth & power over human dignity & justice. It doesn't have to be this way.ÔÇØ
Robert Reich
ÔÇ£I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£It is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents & everyone is writing a book.ÔÇØ
Cicero
ÔÇ£I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.ÔÇØ
Robin Williams
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ÔÇ£You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Some people canÔÇÖt believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.ÔÇØ
Groucho Marx
ÔÇ£If you're going through hell, keep going.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.ÔÇØ
Alexander the great
ÔÇ£Imagination & fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.ÔÇØ
Simone Weil
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ÔÇ£Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£I have nature & art & poetry, & if that is not enough, what is enough?ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£People speak sometimes about the 'bestial cruelty' of man, but that is terribly unjust & offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, artistically cruel.ÔÇØ
Fyodor Dostoevsky
ÔÇ£Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Satire is the weapon of the powerless. And I wielded it with a smirk & a martini.ÔÇØ
Peter Cook
ÔÇ£Please don't teach your empathic kids to 'toughen up' for the world. Teach them how to adapt to the world in a way that honours how they are made. The world needs their empathy.
Nate Postlethwaite
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ÔÇ£The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant.ÔÇØ
Robespierre
ÔÇ£The King must die so that the country can live.ÔÇØ'
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