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Joao Soares

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Joao’s Quotes

“The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.”
― Joan Baez

tags: life-and-death

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness

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“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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Petition for better goodreads updates — 1474 members — last activity May 01, 2026 11:15AM
A place to protest and sign petitions for the latest updates that Goodreads has planned. Invite your friends, because to make an impact we must have a ...more