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“For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.”
― William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”
― John Henrik Clarke, Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution

“I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads”
― Federico García Lorca

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring