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“The ideal subjec of totarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt, The origins of totalitarianism
“It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.”
Jane Goodall
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
“To everything there is a season.Yes. A time to break down & a time to build up.Yes. A time to keep silence & a time to speak.”
Ray Bradbury
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“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
Oscar Wilde
“If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Dorothy Parker
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“If I had to pick one place to hang out, from New York city to Cape Town & Australia to Hong Kong, it would be a bookstore.”
Gloria Steinem
“History is full of people who, out of fear, ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again.”
Carl Sagan
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“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security & independence.People who are hungry & out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
FDR 1944
“The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.”
Noam Chomsky
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“We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much,love too seldom & hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.”
George Carlin
“Art is a hidden doorway that can change people's emotions.”
Akiane Kramarik
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“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity not a pile of ore, if a forest is a sacred grove not timber,if other species are biological kin, not resources, or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity – then we will treat each other with greater respect. This is the challenge, to look at the world from a different persperctive.”
David Suzuki
“There are many humourous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
Mark Twain
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"This wasn't just terrible, this was fancy terrible.This was terrible with raisins in it.”
Dorothy Parker
“The general population doesn't know what's happening.and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”
Noam Chomsky
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