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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

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“The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ?”
― Peter Robinson, The Hanging Valley

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“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
― Friedrich Engels Karl Marx

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“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

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“Philosophy - A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

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