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    George Orwell
    “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture
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    John Perkins
    “I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
    ― John Perkins
    tags: terrorism
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    Francis Bacon
    “The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Essays
    tags: blowback, terrorism
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    John Gardner
    “They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.

    'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
    ― John Champlin Gardner, Grendel
    tags: fiction, historical-fiction, last-lines, literature, retelling
    82 likes

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    Sharon Desruisseaux
    “Conformity is deformity”
    ― Sharon Desruisseaux
    tags: ancient-egypt, cleopatra, egypt, historical, historical-fiction, isis, memoirs, theology
    27 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
    ― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
    tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers
    377 likes

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    “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
    ― Barbara Bloom
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    Werner Herzog
    “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep
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    Fred Rogers
    “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Anthon St. Maarten
    “Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
    ― Anthon St. Maarten
    tags: authenticity, caring, caring-for-others, caring-too-much, compassion, damaged-goods, damaged-people, damaged-souls, dysfunctional-society, dysfunctional-world, emotional, emotional-intelligence, emotional-pain, emotionally-disabled, empath, empathic, empaths, empathy, empathy-diversity, feeling, feelings, highly-sensitive-person, hot-mess, humane, humaneness, new-age-quotes, new-world, sensitive, sensitiveness, sensitivity, society, society-humanity, society-problem, tears-crying, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-quotes
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    Boris Pasternak
    “And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: heart, pain, sensitivity
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adventure, breaks, christian-missions, clarity, courage, distance, focus, heal, healing, hsp, journey, mission, needs, pain, recharge, renewal, retreats, sensitive-people, sensitivity, travel, vacation
    64 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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