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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
    ― Georg Hegel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
    tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!”
    ― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
    tags: marx
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just “evil” now. It’s completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can’t help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it crashed, big time, and capitalism looked like a very poor idea.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Fidel Castro
    “The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
    ― Fidel Castro
    tags: hunger, ignorance, illness, oppression, poverty, war, wealth, weapons, weapons-of-mass-destruction
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara, Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings
    tags: america-latina, global, inspirational, revolution
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
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    John Steinbeck
    “This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: adversity, discipleship, humility, spiritual-warfare
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: creeping, dark, darkness, noises, sneaking
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: harp, man, music, singing
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “There is a wholeness about a woman, of shape, and sound, and colour, and taste, and smell, a quietness that is her, that you will want to hold tightly to you, all, every little bit, without words, in peace, for jealousy for the things that escape the clumsiness of your arms. So you feel when you love.

    ...For her womaness is a blessing about her, and you are tender to put your hands upon her and kiss, not with lust, but with the joy of one returning to a lost one.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: love, womaness, women
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: injustice, rights-of-man
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: birth, feminism, men, women
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Bad news has good legs.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: bad-news, gossip, hearsay
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: people, socialism, unions
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
    tags: cleansing, mind, pain, sight, thinking
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    Graham Greene
    “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
    ― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape
    tags: escape, life, therapy, writing
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    Graham Greene
    “The Lord is my shepherd." But if we are sheep why in heaven's name should we trust our shepherd? He's going to guard us from the wolves all right, oh yes, but only so that he can sell us later to the butcher.”
    ― Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote
    tags: god, religion-christianity, sheep, shepherd
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