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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Feb 12, 2021 11:09PM

“Pleasures
First look from morning's window
The rediscovered book
Fascinated faces
Snow, the change of the seasons
The newspaper
The dog
Dialectics
Showering, swimming
Old music
Comfortable shoes
Comprehension
New music
Writing, planting
Traveling
Singing
Being friendly”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: vergnügungen-pleasures

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“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: desmond-tutu, history, south-africa

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism

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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
― Desmond Tutu

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“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

tags: freedom, libertarian, libertarian-socialism, liberty, socialism

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