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People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + > why< + i + > you want to understand. Idries Shah
Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say we), we emerge... Marcel Proust
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. Chinua Achebe
Thomas Jefferson quote: "It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice"
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice Thomas Jefferson
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. Will Rogers
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago. Jodi Picoult
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. Colleen McCullough
Jack L. Chalker quote: "it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always..."
...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it. Jack L. Chalker
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Bret Easton Ellis
Mitch Albom quote: "Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do..."
Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything. Mitch Albom
I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last bath is out of their bodies, and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony, until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner. W. G. Sebald
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as... Boris Pasternak
John Steinbeck quote: "Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. John Steinbeck

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