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"Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed."
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"Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present."
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"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
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"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."
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"How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?"
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"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."
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"Read books by people you disagree with. Listen to others who think differently from you. Watch programming you wouldn't normally watch. Expand your mind and views of the world. As right as you think you are about your own beliefs and experiences, others feel the same way about their own. You'll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong."
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"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."
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"Call no man happy until he is dead."
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"What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did."
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"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
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"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man."
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"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
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"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
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"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."
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"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
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"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
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"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
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"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible"
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"For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
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