“There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.”
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“When life is not coming up roses
Look to the weeds
and find the beauty hidden within them.”
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Look to the weeds
and find the beauty hidden within them.”
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“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.”
― Ascarion
― Ascarion
“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience—the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or “of those who are to be.” We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.”
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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