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Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Howard Zinn
Alice Hoffman quote: "My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to..."
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. Alice Hoffman
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel. Chuck Klosterman
Plato quote: "Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom..."
Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies… Plato
Oscar Wilde quote: "There is only one class in the community that thinks more..."
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. Oscar Wilde
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand. Paulo Coelho
Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen Jonathan Carroll
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. Kim Stanley Robinson
What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his. Kazuo Ishiguro
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of foo? of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of bun? He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic food? endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy. Evelyn Waugh
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics... they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been... Barack Obama
Mindy Kaling quote: "One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than..."
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. Mindy Kaling
Harvey Milk quote: "All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they..."
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about. Harvey Milk
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on. Richard Carlson
Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? ... Michael Shermer

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