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#1

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity

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#3

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

tags: love

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#4

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: heartbreak, loss, moving, moving-on, stepping

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#5

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#6

“Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing more I want. You make me like who I am, who I become when you’re with me, Oliver.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#7

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#8

“If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#9

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#10

“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: coming-of-age, gay-romance, italy, lost, love

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#11

“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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

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#12

“Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

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#13

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: chaos, history, history-repeating-itself, patterns

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#14

“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
― Syd Moore

tags: history, history-repeating-itself

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#15

“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: atomic, bombs, books, cave, classism, forgotten, fun, hate, history, history-repeating-itself, ignorance, mistakes, poor, rich, starving, uncaring, war

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#16

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

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#17

“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
― S.C. Parris, The Dark World

tags: damion-nicodemeus, dialogue, history, history-repeating-itself, inspirational, the-dark-world, the-dark-world-series, vampires

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#18

“Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?

[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: history-repeating-itself, torture, us-presidents

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#19

“We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb”
― Ihab Hassan, In Quest of Nothing: Selected Essays, 1998-2008

tags: history-repeating-itself

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#20

“The problem with the idea that history repeats itself is that when it isn't making us wiser it's making us complacent.”
― Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

tags: history-repeating-itself

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#21

“History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”
― Karl Marx

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#22

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#23

“Silence ensures that history repeats itself.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

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#24

“Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: activism, causes, change, conflict, controversy, generations, history, resistance

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#25

“History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

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#26

“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”
― Ambrose Bierce

tags: history

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#27

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

tags: history, past

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#28

“When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive parents, clients will choose “crazy” most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused by multiple family perpetrators and has grappled with cutting and eating disordered behaviors for most of her life. She poignantly echoed this dilemma in her therapy:
I hate it when we talk about my family as “dysfunctional” or “abusive.” Think about what you are asking me to accept—that my parents didn't love me, care about me, or protect me. If I have to choose between "being abused" or "being sick and crazy," it's less painful to see myself as nuts than to imagine my parents as evil.”
― Lisa Ferentz, Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide

tags: abuse-survivors, abusers, abusive-parents, child-abuse-survivors, crazy, cutting, denial, dysfunctional-families, eating-disorder-causes, nuts, survivors, therapy

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#29

“Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

tags: 4th-step, 5th-step, amends, chaos, chnage, dysfunctional, dysfunctional-families, family, forgiveness, love, recovery

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#30

“Sexual abuse is also a secret crime, one that usually has no witness. Shame and secrecy keep a child from talking to siblings about the abuse, even if all the children in a family are being sexually assaulted. In contrast, if a child is physically or emotionally abused, the abuse is likely to occur in front of the other children in the family, at least some of the time. The physical and emotional abuse becomes part of the family's explicit history. Sexual abuse does not.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

tags: abuse-survivors, abusive-parents, child-abuse, child-sexual-abuse, crime, dysfunctional-families, dysfunctional-family, incest, memory-represssion, repressed-memories, secrecy, sexual-abuse, shame

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#31

“It is not hard to imagine the day when millions of obedient followers of the New Faith may suddenly turn against it. That day would come the moment the Center lost its material might, not only because fear of military force would vanish, but because success is an integral part of this philosophy’s argument. If it lost, it would prove itself wrong by its own definition; it would stand revealed as a false faith, defeated by its own god, reality.”
― C. Milosz, Captive Mind, 1953

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