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The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists. Frank Herbert
I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself. Cory Doctorow
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new. Charlotte Bronte
Mitch Albom quote: "No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the..."
No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you. Mitch Albom
A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The light. The light is so bright that all that remains is you and the darkness. You can feel the audience breathing. It's like holding a gun or standing on a precipice and knowing you must jump. It feels slow and fast. It's like dying and being born and fucking and crying. It's like falling in love and being utterly alone with God; you taste your own mouth and feel your own skin and I knew I was alive and I knew who I was and that that wasn't who I'd been up till then. I'd been so far... Russell Brand
Oscar Levant quote: "When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen."
When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen. Oscar Levant
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but, we can assist their leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly wake up to find they have Communism. Nikita Khrushchev
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. Plato
Victor Hugo quote: "She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a..."
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. Victor Hugo
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. H. L. Mencken
Carl Jung quote: "The sure path can only lead to death."
The sure path can only lead to death. Carl Jung
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last? the power to refuse our consent. Primo Levi
Michael Ende quote: "A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past..."
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story. Michael Ende
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology. Steven Pinker

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