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#1

“As John finished his speech, Zack couldn’t help but wonder how a country that had been served by a brilliant and inclusive president for eight years now chose to elect a narcissistic, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic racist with no experience in government.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Justice

tags: courtroom-drama, discrimination, first-amendment, immigration, justice, politics, predjudice, religious-bias, terrorist-attack, white-supremacy

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#2

“More than ever before the framework for absolute global control and oppression is now firmly in place. We have all been part of an evolution into a “new society” subject to authoritarian forms of government with militarised police forces at home and imperialistic policies abroad. In this “new society” the rich and powerful elites can have and do whatever they want, while the poor and powerless are left shackled and in desperate need.”
― William Hanna, The Grim Reaper

tags: crimes-against-humanity, fighting-for-truth, humanity, worldview

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#3

“Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.”
― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones

tags: abusive-relationships, authoritarianism, between-the-lines-pub, corona-pandemic, dystopian, election-2020, great-read, kindleunlimited, racial-tension

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#4

“I watched him spread out his arms with a smile before he crashed through the table in a beautiful crescendo, the glass sounding like tinkles from a piano as its shavings glittered across the floor and sliced through his face and body.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

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#5

“I’m not fond of people who demonize drinking. I once heard, “You don’t need alcohol to have fun. You don’t need running shoes to run, but it helps!” Having a drink or two helps you relax. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a few drinks.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

tags: advice-for-daily-living, easier-life, self-improvement

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#6

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: writing-books

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#7

“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.”
― Anne Rice

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#8

“And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
(They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!")
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!")
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”
― T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations

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#9

“...strangely alone in the most public of places.”
― Sara Gruen (Author)

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#10

“So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.”
― Wally Lamb, We Are Water

tags: forgiveness, love

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#11

“When he was eleven, id Software released the video game Doom, and Eric found the perfect virtual playground to explore his fantasies. His adversaries had faces, bodies, and identities now. They made sounds and fought back. Eric could measure his skills and keep score. He could beat nearly everyone he knew. On the Internet, he could triumph over thousands of strangers he had never met. He almost always won, until later, when he met Dylan. They were an even match.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

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#12

“Ingen är normal.”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

tags: normalitet

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#13

“Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

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#14

“It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.”
― John Irving, In One Person

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#15

“He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: containment, spirit, wuthering-heights

49 likes

#16

“Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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#17

“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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#18

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
― Dean Koontz, False Memory

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#20

“Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

19 likes

#21

“I had as well be killed running as die standing”
― Frederick Douglass

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#22

“One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: time-management

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#23

“We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

tags: dragons

85 likes

#24

“You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

132 likes

#25

“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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#26

“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”
― Richard P. Feynman, Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

tags: humor, science

46 likes

#27

“Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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#28

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”
― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

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#29

“Viviré en París y no comeré nada que no sea chocolate;
además fumaré puros, me inyectaré heroína y solo escucharé a Jimi Hendrix
y The Doors.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love

9 likes

#30

“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting.”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

tags: catholicism, christianity, jesus, language, magic, mysticism, religion, ritual

18 likes

#31

“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: cretins, rats, scum, vermin, vile

59 likes

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