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“Everything you need is already inside.”
― William J. Bowerman

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.”
― James E. Faust

“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”
― M.H. McKee

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”
― George Orwell, 1984

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ”
― George Orwell

“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present