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#1

“If an eagle be imprisoned
on the back of a coin,
and the coin tossed
into the sky,
the coin will spin,
the coin will flutter,
but the eagle will never fly.”
― Henry Dumas

tags: america, capitalism, freedom, greed, slavery

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#2

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: control, domination, life, love, relationships

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#3

“Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ”
― Garry Wills

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#4

“Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.”
― Garry wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

tags: accountability, democracy, government, participation, secrets

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#5

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: international-relations, violence, western-civilization, world-order

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#6

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.”
― Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters to His Son, 1746-47

tags: idleness

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#7

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

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#8

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: courage, empowerment, enterprise

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#9

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: childhood, love, nature

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#10

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, hurt, save, words, yuki

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#11

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
― James Joyce

tags: fear, secrets, silence, tiredness

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#12

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.” If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence.”
― Emil Cioran, Drawn and Quartered

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#13

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: action, inspirational, responsibility, thought

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#14

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

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#15

“When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: grudges, hurt, inspirational, life, relationships, sorry

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#16

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: heart, love, reason, truth

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#17

“What worries you masters you.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I

tags: anxiety, stress, worry

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#18

“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in earnest.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

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#19

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#20

“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
― Walter Benjamin

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#21

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#22

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

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#23

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts

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#24

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#25

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: freedom

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#26

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
― Chinua Achebe (Author)

tags: colonialism, eloquence, history-of-mankind, proverb

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#27

“وأنـا !!سأبـقى العـشبة الصـفـراء المنـسـيّة ...
ايُّ يد قـادرة عـلى أن تجـتـثّـنـي من هـذه الـارض ؟”
― ليلى العثمان, صمت الفراشات

tags: صمت-الفراشات-_ليلى-العثمان

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#28

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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