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ÔÇ£Change is freedom, change is life.It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy & settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easier to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everyone else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fullfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.ÔÇØ
Ursula K. Le Guin
ÔÇ£You cannot buy the revolution.You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Hope is a slow business.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£The only thing that nakes life possible is permanent, intolerable, uncertainty; never knowing what comes next.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£We read books to find out who we are.What other people, real or imaginary, do & think & feel,...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are & may become.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Capitalism's grow-or-die imperative stands at odds with ecology's imperative of interdepence & limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society be founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an eco.logical society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Injustice makes the rules & courage breaks them.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way.The worst walls are the ones you put there.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question & you yourself, are the answer.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say,how they say it. Writers know words are their way to truth & freedom, & so they use them with care, with thought,with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.Story tellers & poets spend their lives learning that skill & art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£What sane person could live in this world & not be crazy?ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question & you yourself, are the answer.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say,how they say it. Writers know words are their way to truth & freedom, & so they use them with care, with thought,with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.Story tellers & poets spend their lives learning that skill & art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£What sane person could live in this world & not be crazy?ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£Courage is knowing it might hurt & doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that's why life is hard.ÔÇØ
Jeremy Goldberg
ÔÇ£I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many, but to always feel you never have enough.ÔÇØ
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ÔÇ£We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds: our planet is the mental institution of the universe.ÔÇØ
Goethe
ÔÇ£Education isn't something you can finish.ÔÇØ
Isaac Asimov
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ÔÇ£Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?ÔÇØ
George Bernard Shaw
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ÔÇ£You may not always see the results of your kindness, but every bit of positive energy you contribute to the world makes it a better place for all of us.ÔÇØ
Lisa Currie
ÔÇ£No matter who you are,or where you are,or how mundane or tough your situation might seem, I believe ypu can illuminate your world. In fact, I believe this is the only way the world will ever be illuminated, one bright act of grace at a time, all the way to the river.ÔÇØ
Melissa Gilbert
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ÔÇ£We can disagree & still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression & denial of my humanity & right to exist.ÔÇØ
James Baldwin
ÔÇ£The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.ÔÇØ
Albert Einstein
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ÔÇÿGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
ÔÇÿIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
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ÔÇÿCommon sense is not so common.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
ÔÇÿEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
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ÔÇÿIt is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
ÔÇÿTo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
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"Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him.ÔÇØ
Ali ibn Abu Talib, Cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and the Fourth ever Caliph.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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ÔÇÿWhat is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each otherÔÇÖs folly ÔÇô that is the first law of nature.ÔÇÖ
ÔÇÿThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
ÔÇÿIt is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.ÔÇÖ
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'Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
ÔÇÿIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets .'
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ÔÇÿDoubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.ÔÇÖ┬á
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ÔÇÿIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.ÔÇÖ
Voltaire
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