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“Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“هذا الإنسان الجديد يجب أن يتسم بالمبادرة ، فعليه أن يطور قدراته الفردية ، وأن يكون شخصية إبداعية ؛ ومن أجل بناء المجتمع الجديد لسنا بحاجة الى دُمى تهزّ رأسها موافقة على كل شيء ، بل على العكس من ذلك إننا بحاجة الى مُناضلين نشيطين ، لا يعملون من أجل مصالح شخصية ، إنما يُشاركون في بناء المجتمع الإشتراكي بإبداع .”
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“Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.”
― Lord of Chaos
― Lord of Chaos
“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”
― Who Moved My Cheese?
― Who Moved My Cheese?
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.”
― American Gods
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.”
― American Gods
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