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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    ― Robert Frost
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    Franz Kafka
    “There were dark hours, of course, such as came to everybody, in which you thought you had achieved nothing at all, in which it seemed to you that only the cases predestined from the start to seucceed came to a good end, which they would have reached in any event without your help, while every one of the others was doomed to fail in spite of all your manœuvres, all your exertions, all the illusory little victories on which you plumed yourself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
    tags: existential, kafka
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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    “The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interests in and occupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them.”
    ― Alexander Solschenizyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
    tags: absurdity, alexandria, caliph, caliph-omar, gospel, gregory-the-great, intolerance, islam, koran, library, library-of-alexandria, pontiff, quran, science-vs-religion
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
    tags: 18th-century, enlightenment, philosophy, rousseau
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    Faiz Ahmad Faiz
    “Before you came,
    things were as they should be:
    the sky was the dead-end of sight,
    the road was just a road, wine merely wine.

    Now everything is like my heart,
    a color at the edge of blood:
    the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns,
    the gold when we meet, the season ablaze,
    the yellow of autumn, the red of flowers, of flames,
    and the black when you cover the earth
    with the coal of dead fires.

    And the sky, the road, the glass of wine?
    The sky is a shirt wet with tears,
    the road a vein about to break,
    and the glass of wine a mirror in which
    the sky, the road, the world keep changing.

    Don’t leave now that you’re here—
    Stay. So the world may become like itself again:
    so the sky may be the sky,
    the road a road,
    and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine.”
    ― Faiz Ahmad Faiz, 100 Poems by Faiz Ahmed Fiza
    tags: blood, heart, inspirational, love, lovers, pain, road, sadness, sky, you
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    ― John Muir, Our National Parks
    tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness
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    Sun Tzu
    “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: benefit, war
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    ― Eugene Victor Debs
    tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny
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    Haile Selassie I
    “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

    - Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
    ― Haile Selassie I, Selected Speeches
    tags: bob-marley, diversity, equality, peace, politics, race, racism, war
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Confucius
    “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
    ― Confucius
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  • #18
    “Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
    ― Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
    tags: activism, censorship, class, class-warfare, emotions-and-attitude, freedom-of-speech, gender-feminism, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, immigrant-experience, immigrants, insanity, insanity-is-normal, liberal-hypocrisy, liberalism, oppression, oppressors, patronization, patronizing, political-correct-crap, political-correctness, political-insanity, politically-correct, politics, politics-insanity, politics-of-the-united-states, post-feminism, privilege, sensitivity, shits-fucked-up-yo, society, society-thinking, white-privilege
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